Designed to accommodate the owners and their friends in the rich natural environment at a mountain retreat 150 kilometers away from Tokyo, the Four Leaves weekend villa built by Kentaro Ishida Architects Studio is located in the middle of a forest in Karuizawa, Nagano prefecture of Japan. Each function of the building faces its own...
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True Ofuro Bathtub: A Fresh Take On Japanese Classics
Japanese ofuro tubs were originated as short, steep-sided wooden bathtubs. They differ from a conventional Western bathtubs by being of a deeper construction, typically in the region of 0.6 m. The sides are generally square rather than being sloped, and such a tub traditionally has no overflow drainage. This Japanese classics gets a modern twist...
Creative Split Level Minimalist House In Japan
Zeze Osaka is nice example of minimalist Japanese architecture and design. Japanese design Studio Swing wanted to build a house that could be a festive space in everyday life, where the ‘ordinary and extraordinary’ blend into that space having both ‘individual and common’ features. First of all, the architects made sure to keep an appropriate...
Traditional Japanese Home With Contemporary Details
If you like traditional Japanese architecture, I’m going to give a feast to your eyes! The home we are featuring today is a 53-year-old 2847 sq ft house that was renovated and styled for a young family of four. The house was renovated by ALTS design office, who decided to harmonize the existing favorable details...
Japandi Apartment With A Muted Color Palette
This apartment is located in the Italian countryside near Genova and studio Gosplan was asked to renovate the whole space and refurnish it to make the interiors functional and stylish at the same way. The studio succeeded in doing that and featured Japandi style and a muted color palette plus super functional furniture. The main...
Japandi Bed Inspired By Japanese Futons
We’ve recently shared some ideas for Japandi decor style, which is a mix of Scandinavian and Japanese decor. And today we are sharing a piece that is right for Japandi bedrooms, it’s YOMA bed by kaschkasch and Zeitraum. The bed design was inspired by Japanese sleeping futons that unroll on the floor on top of...
25 Trendy Japandi Interior Design Ideas
Japandi (or Scandinese) is one of the newest current trends in decor this year, and it’s here to stay. What’s Japandi? This is a mix of two styles: modern and rustic Scandinavian and traditional elegance of Japanese decor. It’s not surprising that these two styles are mixed into one, they both are about creating functional...
Shou Sugi Ban House Inspired By Traditional Japanese architecture
The design and construction of the Shou Sugi Ban House was joint effort between with Seattle architects Suyama Peterson Deguchi architects and Erin Stetzer. The house was inspired by traditional Japanese architecture, and is named after a traditional Japanese technique for weatherproofing wood. The process involves burning and oiling lumber to give it a rich...
Cost-Effective Japanese Home With An Unusual Facade
Challenged with an irregular, triangular and sloping site outside of the city of Sapporo in Japan, House in Nishino is a project completed by Yoshichika Takagi + Associates. To reduce the overall construction costs of building the family home, the excavation process was small and the architects exploited the building’s height instead with the addition...
Coffee Ceremony Furniture Collection Inspired By Japanese Traditions
British artist Hugh Miller based this collection of chairs, stools and a table on a Japanese coffee-making ritual he observed while travelling. The Coffee Ceremony were prompted by the designer’s time on a research fellowship in Japan. Having observed “everyday ceremonies of life”, he developed his own ceremonial version of making and serving coffee. The...