Japan Art, architecture and travel
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Japan - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Japan.
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Kimono specialist Hosoo opens minimalist Kyoto flagship
By Danielle Demetriou • Last updated
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Robots track Tokyo 2020 Olympic highlights to create public art
In The Constant Gardeners, Jason Bruges Studio’s new public art installation, four robotic ‘gardeners’ use live data from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to create striking artworks
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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The Marriott group launches diffusion brand Moxy in Osaka
By Daven Wu • Last updated
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Renowned architects design sculptural beauty packaging
Architects Kengo Kuma, Oskar Leo Kaufmann, and Tokujin Yoshioka are designing a new landscape in the world of beauty packaging
By Mary Cleary • Last updated
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Project Japan: Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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A contemporary tea room and shop opens in Tokyo
By Catherine Shaw • Last updated
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Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura faces off with Old Masters in New York
By Charlotte Jansen • Last updated
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Worthy winner: Jun'ya Ishigami scoops top international architecture award
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Found Muji
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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A new collection of furniture combines Italian and Japanese craftsmanship
Italian furniture company De Padova and Japanese brand Time & Style join forces on a collection of furniture that marries the two countries' aesthetics and craftsmanship traditions
By Alice Morby • Last updated
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One bedroom Trunk(House) offers classic Japanese living with a disco twist in Tokyo
By Danielle Demetriou • Last updated
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Case Real transforms a disappearing tenement house into an Aesop store in Japan
By Luke Halls • Last updated
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Youbi’s new HQ in Honshu is a friendly local hub as well as a furniture factory
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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Nendo’s minimalist homeware hacks connect human and object at Salone del Mobile
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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An original teahouse in Kyoto has been transformed into the 23-bedroom Sowaka
By Daven Wu • Last updated
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Kennel club: Japan’s Kenya Hara launches Architecture for Dogs
By Naomi Pollock • Last updated
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Theaster Gates explores the troubling history of a coastal community forced out of home
For his first solo museum show in France, the Chicago-based artist dives into the dark past of the now-uninhabited Malaga Island off the coast of Maine
By Amy Verner • Last updated
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‘Any oyster can make a pearl – only beautiful ones can be jewels’
We delve into the Nagasaki waters with Tasaki’s pearl harvesters in pursuit of a perfectly lustrous cultivated crop
By Caragh McKay • Last updated
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Muji is bringing its masterfully minimalist aesthetic to hotels
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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Inside-out house in Tokyo is an experiment in urban design
Tokyo’s Weather House by Not Architects Studio occupies a prominent corner site in a quiet residential street, its explosed structure and planting helping it blend into a nearby urban park
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Boutique mixed-use scheme in Japan combines music and living
A mixed-use scheme combining a music hall with residential units is completed in Japan, courtesy of Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Anne Imhof: body language as tool, canvas and concept
Anne Imhof is one of five radical artists chosen by Michèle Lamy for Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project. In the midst of Imhof’s carte blanche at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, we explore how she has redefined the concept of body language
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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teamLab: how a Tokyo art collective pioneered an immersive art boom
With an operatic intervention and a show at Pace Geneva, teamLab, the now-700-strong Tokyo-based collective that blazed a trail for experiential, tech-fuelled art, continues to value ‘physical interaction in physical space’
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Muji opens its largest standalone store topped with its newest hotel in Ginza, Tokyo
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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Botanical sculptor Azuma Makoto creates a sculptural ecosystem at Mexico’s SFER IK
Japanese artist Azuma Makoto’s largest flower sculpture to date responds to SFER IK’s unique biophilic design and the surrounding wilderness
By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated
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Chiharu Shiota weaves past, present and future at an 18th-century Yorkshire chapel
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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At Kyotographie, photographers are looking onwards and upwards
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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