Tokyo Weekly: Nakae Architects & Musvi Point Design

Written by Keiji Ashizawa
Translated by Hannah Hernandez
NE apartment
Nakae Architects

Associate design
Takagi Akiyoshi /takagi akiyoshi architectural design firm office
Oono Hiroshi /ohno Japan

The Condominium contains eight family units in three levels including a bike garage. By arranging curved walls an elegant space on each unit is created.

Photos : Hiroyasu Sakaguchi

MUSVI
Design : Point

The designers of musvi, point, is a team that was put together by
Nagaoka Tsutomu, an architect.

He is also a well-known member of the management shaaoffice co- lab.
This office is full of vigorous energy with many young creators.
It is s jewelry shop specializing in wedding rings.
The brand name musvi means knot and is created with fine ribbons.
Different appearances and spaces are achieved by cris-crossing the fine ribbons together.

Tokyo Weekly: AN Architects and Luft design

Written by Keiji Ashizawa
Translated by Hannah Hernandez

Hiroshi Araki & Koji Nagasawa
AN Architects is an architectural design office which was formed by two architects who studied at Tadao Ando’s office. It was formed in Osaka in 2005.

The booths were created for galleries and museums, as you can tell by the photos. They were created to be compact with many variations. They are going to be introduced during Tokyo design week at the prototype exhibit. See more images below.

Luft is a design office created by Nami Makishi and Satoko Mizoguchi in 2005. The theme is furniture that you would want for your home. This series of furniture that is made by Rawan glued boards (laminated board) which are very cheap in Japan. It is designed with sturdy shapes that add beauty to the design.

Tokyo Weekly: Design Tide

Written by Keiji Ashizawa
Translated by Hannah Hernandez

This is the third year for Design tide. Up till last year they were exhibiting in buildings under construction and vacant stadium spaces which served as a message in itself. This year they were exhibited at an event space located on the basement floor of a shopping mall in midtown Tokyo. Due to the convenience of transportation and the shopping malls location, it was commercially successful but it appeared to be less eventful. Mr Makoto Tanijiri coordinated the space which did a great job.

Chris Kirby – Negative Series

Stool by Raw Edge design studio

Stool by Grand furniture & Factory Naoya Matsuo

Clock by Tamotsu Koshima

Vase by Jin Kuramoto

Chair by Mile

Chair made with hard rubber and wood

Furniture made with glued wood by Jo Nagasaka

Tokyo Weekly: 100% Design and Design Tide

Written by Keiji Ashizawa
Translated by Hannah Hernandez

Tokyo design week turned out to be a successful and very prosperous event. The two big events were 100% design Tokyo and Design Tide. Tokyo design week on 0ct 30th thru Nov. 3rd turned out to be a very successful week. Both events were blessed with many participants as usual. We are proud to say that the prototype exhibitions which we hosted were also a great success.

I’d like to introduce a few designers out of the 29 pairs.

Chris Kirby

He is an industrial designer who comes from an engineering background. His Spiral Lamp shows a great engineering idea. I’d like to state that this lamp is a prototype he created himself.

Youichiro Yamanaka

CH-BED-AIR can be considered a prototype that encourages one to think about what it could possibly evolve into. This can be seen by his sketching as well. By exhibiting a piece like this at the show, it allows people who see it to imagine more possibilities. There were many participants who created products for the show with the hope of possibly expanding these ideas into greater products for the future.

In design

They are a group who should be feared that independently produces all of their tools. We are excited to see the unique objects they create with a good sense of surprise and humor.

Keiji Ahsizawa - Ellipse

lumps are made of 0.5 mm thin iron board that are laser cut and bent by hands. This process creates soft lighting made by the curving of the iron board and dotted line. There are three different types created: one that mounts on the wall, stand type and hanging type.