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The Professional Interior Designers

 

This new book The Professional Interior Designers, 27 Interior Designers, published by GAP JAPAN, features an interview with me. The question posed was to discuss some remarkable differences between Japan and Europe that impact the prefailing direction with regard to the design of restaurants and retail spaces in these different cultures. The book opens with an interview with the wellknown interior designer Yukio Hashimoto and the pages inbetween these interviews are dedicated to the introduction of the work of 27 interior designers and gives a good impression of current Interior design trends in Japan.

Architecture Energy Japan in JIA Buletin

日本建築家協会の会報誌「Bulletin」2013年7月号に海外レポートが掲載されています。よかったら、読んでくださいね。カリフォルニアのユニークな取り組みを紹介しています。今後の日本のよい参考になるはず。

http://www.jia-kanto.org/members/bulletin/2013/07/10a.html

Nebuta-no-ie Warasse in GA 109 – March April 2011

Nebuta-no-ie Warasse in Nikkei Architecture

The February 2011 (no 945) issue featured Nebuta-no-ie Warasse in a two page article. In the same period we collaborated with Nikkei Architecture and Hewlett-Packard on an article published in the March 2011 (no 947) issue. For about two we were asked to test run the large size HP Designjet T2300 eMFP printer-scanner-plotter. The fact that this printer can handle A0 size drawings, that it is also a scanner and its reasonable price-quality ration makes it an attractive machine, provided one has the space. We had to clear our living romm to do the test.

N-HOUSE in SPACE series 2 RESIDENCE

SPACE is a series published by Beisistudio Pace Publishers in Hong Kong. Previously Y-HOUSE was selected for the HOME issue and this time N-HOUSE was included in RESIDENCE together with a wide veriety of residential interiors.

NEBUTA NO IE WARASSE 090625

Nebuta-no-ie Warasse was published by a Architectural magazine called Albenaa in Saudi Arabia.

N-HOUSE in Contemporary House Design by daab

N-House was published in Contemporary House Design a book published by the German publisher daab.
From the press release: With concise photography and numerous plans, this book compiles the worldʼs most interesting houses designed by renowned architects that meet the complex demands of todayʼs life. Family homes, larger residences or luxurious villas made from materials such as stone, wood, glass or concrete in different locations such as Starnberg, Los Angeles or Sydney – they have all been designed in a time where social and climate change have influenced a change in traditional values. Their development is affected by location, environment and climate, and also by the individual needs and ideas of the clients.
Contemporary House Design
ISBN: 978-3-86654-057-6
Format 22,5 x 22,5 cm
384 Pages Hardcover
Text: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian
Retail Price 39,95 Euro

N-HOUSE in Hiše

http://www.zavodbig.com/revija-hise-archive/

magazine is the leading architectural publication in Slovenia. Six times annually the magazine features strong new architecture from the immediate region and beyond, with a particular focus on housing and interior design. It is published in the Slovenian language. This years spring, a special spring issue which features a cross-section of some of the best single-family house projects realized/completed anywhere in the world over the past two years was published and features our project N-House.

ATLAS FOR LIVING

The list of publications keeps on growing for our project Y-House. The latest addition is in [Atlas for Living] compiled by Daniela Santos Quartino for Loft Publishers and Published in Asia by [Page One]. Y-House is included under the under the chapter “Industrial”. This time we have the pleasure to be included next to a lot of famous designers, as per the introduction of the book:

[Interior design is a process that shapes the internal experience through the way volumes and surfaces are used. Its scope goes beyond the threshold of decoration to address the architectural, psychological and equipment aspects of a house.

This atlas brings together interior design projects from designers and architects from around the world, including Philippe Starck, India Madhavi, Karim Rashid, Matali Crasset, Massimiliano Fuksas, and Claudio Silestrin, the Ministry of design, and many more, in which the reader will find the key points in contemporary trends.]

Project coordinator & editor: Daniela Santos Quartino
Copy right 2008 Loft Publications published in Asia by PAGE ONE PUBLISHERS

Read more: “ATLAS FOR LIVING” »

Y-House in 100×400 vol.1 by RIHAN Publishers

This Hong-Kong based publisher brought out a book showing 406 projects world wide.
Y-House was selected and shares the pages of the huge volume with well published architects offices such as Adjaye Associates, Eric Owen Moss, Coop HimmelB(l)au, etc

H.K. RIHAN Int’l Culture Spread Ltd
ISSN 1992-4305

Y-House published in HOME

About home design (Excerpt from the preface)

…..It is that special place to come back to, especially after a hard days work and it is that moment when you open the door and feel at peace in that space, which is yours, a personal place where you can retreat and prepare for the next day…….

My ideal dwelling is to have lots of different rooms with different character…..

Sze-King Kan

Home by PACE Publishing Ltd, 2008 Hong-Kong
ISBN:978-962-7723-00-4

http://www.beisistudio.com

EASY TRAVELER 16号summer 2007

特集は「DESIGN…幸福な住まい」です。

ずいぶん間を空けてしまいましたが、やっと16号が完成しました。
特集テーマはDESIGNです。

特集テーマを決めて、さて内容は???と昨年から考え始めて思ったこと。いいデザインのものっていっぱいあるなということ。本当にいっぱいあります、服もインテリア用品も雑貨も。(いまいちなものもいっぱいあるような気がしますが)。そんな中で、どれが更にいいデザインかを、もう考える必要はない気がしました、なんとなく。
そしてふと感じたのは、むしろデザインに対する考え方が変わっていく時代なのではないか、ということでした。地球環境の近未来がより一層シビアになり、私たちの暮しをシリアスに根本から考え直さなければならない時代になりつつあると思います。必要に迫られて暮し方を決めるとき、必要な物はおのずと決まってきます。そして、大きな企業や大きな考えを持つ人は、もうそういう「物」作りを始めているように思います。20世紀のグッドデザインと21世紀のグッドデザインは違うのではないかと思いました。
そんなことを思いながら作った特集です。
編集長 神田典子……………
オランダ人建築家フランク・ラ・リヴィエレが考える「幸福な住まい」
Comfortable living by Frank la Riviere
EUでいちばん人口密度が高いオランダは集合住宅もおもしろい。そのオランダ出身の建築家フランク・ラ・リヴィエレさんの視点で見た、パブリックスペースやオランダの集合住宅、日本の住宅などについての特集です。

日本ではなかなか知ることのできない、オランダの団地、母子家庭のためのアパート、小学校につて現地の写真付きで紹介、解説。個人の家だけでなく、公共の空間についても「本当に快適とは何だろう」と語ってくれています。
http://www.easytraveler.org/book/016.html

Publication in NEW INTERIORS

NEW INTERIORS, inside 40 of the most spectacular homes
By Anja Llorella Oriol
Available Formats: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins Design http://harpercollins.com
ISBN-13 978-0-06-113972-7

Y-House was selected for publication in this lavishly illustrated book and we had the honor of being on the very first pages!

 

Y-House in Cubes 04/2007

Y-House published in the section BLUEPRINT (text Rachel Lee) as one of the featured projects in Cubes Magazine, published in Singapore by Concepts Asia Publishing.

Under the caption Concrete Concepts Rachel Lee writes of the project;
“Frank la Rivière carefully cuts and crafts a perceived ruin into an architectural gem that defies the norm”.

“The unfinished structure would prove to be a design compass of sorts, presenting parameters that ground the design, as much as they challenge (it)….”

“Y-House throws off the cloak of convention in favour of novelty. And yet, it’s anything but novelty for novelty’s sake. Boldly going against the grain, la Rivière’s transformation of the concrete edifice is founded very much on practicalities such as function and cost – even if the result appears as conceptual in and of themselves”.