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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Scents with stories: Japanese artist Takahashi Hiroko releases personal home fragrances
By Sujata Burman • Last updated
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Boano Prišmontas’ portable tea house blends Japanese ritual with modern functionality
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Jacqueline Hassink offers a unique look at Kyoto’s temples and gardens
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Itsuko Hasegawa scoops first ever Royal Academy Architecture Prize
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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A nuanced new photobook reflects on the impossibility of capturing Japan
Photographer Lucie Rox’s SIGNS is a sensitive take on an age-old dilemma
By Maisie Skidmore • Last updated
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New Light Pottery’s HQ in Nara, Japan, merges old and new
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Japanese car design
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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New perspectives in dining: Nendo presents Colourful Shadows at Japan's Expo Milan 2015 Pavilion
By Ali Morris • Last updated
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Craftwork: Muji's 'Tatazumai' collection comprises new artisanal wares
By Julie Baumgardner • Last updated
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London designer Max Lamb takes a shine to the Japanese art of lacquerware
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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Taking shape: Nendo redesigns Kenzo Tange offices and cafe in Tokyo
Nendo has turned interior architecture on its head in Kenzo Tange's Sogetsu Kaikan Tokyo building, where the renowned design studio has reimagined the Aoyama offices and Connel cafe.
By Sam Rogers • Last updated
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This is Issey: the work of Miyake at Tokyo’s National Art Center
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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Lighting up the sky: Japan’s Method Inc celebrates the summer with newly designed fireworks
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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Japan House London celebrates the Asian nation’s cultural offerings
By Clare Dowdy • Last updated
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Treehouse meets Japanese teahouse at Hombroich rocket station in Germany
Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori has installed his latest environmental teahouse in a tree at the Museum Island Hombroich. The Ein Stein Haus, or One Stone House, inspired by Zen Buddhism
By Ilona Marx • Last updated
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How Tokyo’s creative universe is evolving at Designart’s second edition
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Letter from Japan: we chart the nation's new architecture projects
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Wallpaper* guest editor Tomás Saraceno talks science, spiders, and bouncing sounds off the moon
Science, technology, architecture and philosophy all find their way into the art of Tomás Saraceno. Whether in arachnid experiments or aerial cities, he has called for a radical transformation of our relationship with each other and the planet. Ahead of his largest exhibition to date, we visited Saraceno in Berlin to get entangled in his spider lab, dance in his theatre of shadows, and discover his plans to bounce sounds off the moon.
By Amy Serafin • Last updated
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A bewitching new photobook takes a walk on Japan’s wild side
By Charlotte Jansen • Last updated
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In the frame: standout designs from around the globe
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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IWA sake brewery by Kengo Kuma is Best Roofscape: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022
IWA sake brewery in Japan, by Kengo Kuma & Associates, scoops Best Roofscape at the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022
By Tony Chambers • Last updated
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Valley Gallery by Tadao Ando is Naoshima's newest art pilgrimage site
The latest addition to Japan’s Benesse Art Site, Tadao Ando’s Valley Gallery is a geometric gem that makes the most of its remote setting
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Photographer Takashi Homma on Bach, punk and working with ‘no preparation’
‘Through the lens’ is our monthly series that throws the spotlight on photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors. Here we explore Takashi Homma’s vision further
By Sophie Gladstone • Last updated
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Interactive floor plan: Clover House, Japan
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Wabi savvy: Antwerp aesthete Axel Vervoordt has built an ever-expanding empire on art
By Emma O'Kelly • Last updated
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Japanese beef, Tokyo views and jazz at the Park Hyatt’s New York Grill
By Lauren Ho • Last updated
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Nature-inspired housing enriches the landscape of our cities
From Tokyo to Sydney and Oslo, architect-led, boutique housing developments are changing the way we live and define the landscape of our cities, creating small-scale visions of modernity and expressing the zeitgeist in the multi-family residential realm
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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