Art, architecture and travel in Japan
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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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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Aman, Kyoto wins Wallpaper* Design Award for Best New Hotel
Aman in Kyoto, Japan has scooped our coveted Wallpaper* Design Awards 2020 for the Best New Hotel, as selected by our discerning jury
By Melina Keays Last updated
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André Fu’s new furniture is inspired by Japanese gardens
André Fu Living’s Art Deco Garden is a collection of furniture, objects, wallcoverings and homeware inspired by Zen gardens and Art Deco
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Kennel club: Japan’s Kenya Hara launches Architecture for Dogs
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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
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Tristan du Plessis blends Japanese and South African design influences at Cape Town's FYN
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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
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Muji is bringing its masterfully minimalist aesthetic to hotels
By Jens H Jensen 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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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 H 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
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At Kyotographie, photographers are looking onwards and upwards
By Jens H Jensen Last updated
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Hat trick: the magic of Japanese milliner Kijima Takayuki
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Luxe glamping with Mount Fuji views with the launch of the new Hoshinoya property
By Emilee Tombs Last updated
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Secrets of Japanese cookery revealed in Phaidon’s latest graphic tome
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Review: Ryoji Ikeda’s London show is a sensory assault course
Exhibition review of Ryoji Ikeda's epic intervention at 180 The Strand, London. The Japanese artist’s solo show is an intense fusion of sound and vision. Warning: videos include flashing images
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Book: How to Make a Japanese House
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Aman Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
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Setouchi Aonagi is architect Tadao Ando’s new seven-room retreat
By Jens H Jensen Last updated
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Dover Street Market Ginza, Tokyo
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Kai Sengokuhara is a ryokan with a focus on art
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Japan as seen through the lens of Marcio Kogan
Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan recalls his Christmas tradition of traveling to Japan and how that inspired a new collection of seating for Minotti, referencing the original 1960s design of hotel Okura by Yoshiro Taniguchi
By Scott Mitchem Last updated
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Umbrella House by Kazuo Shinohara opens at Vitra Campus
The Umbrella House by Kazuo Shinohara is installed at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Kyoto’s first Blue Bottle Coffee shop is an architectural zen retreat
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated