March 2006 • Features
How to Wrap 5 Jewels
No need for Japan’s fashionable consumers to swarm the Champs-Elysées to be suffused by the Louis Vuitton experience: since 1978 the Parisian brand has been practically colonizing the Land of the Rising Sun, in addition to opening hundreds of stores elsewhere around the world.
Read Related Stories:
Two-Man Band
An American designer and his Japanese collaborator prepare to take on the big contract-furniture companies, pretty much all by themselves.
Distilling the Classics
Muji’s latest collection has two high-profile designers updating Thonet standards.
A House for Repose
In its first completed project, a young architecture firm considers the needs of a retired Japanese couple.
Japanese Efficiency
The country’s designers continue to craft products with emotional and physical appeal.
Small Wonder
Rem Koolhaas and Clément Blanchet outfit a tiny Parisian bistro with marble, mirrors, and a hint of Hellenistic architecture.
BACK TO TOP