Pico Iyer
Acclaimed travel writer and author, Pico Iyer, speaks on how travelling the world can start with a simple step back.
Acclaimed travel writer and author, Pico Iyer, speaks on how travelling the world can start with a simple step back.
As world-wandering editor, Takahiro Kinoshita relishes the days spent at home by exploring Japan's lush nature and logging in quality family-time.
With a dynamic mix of long-form journalism, interviews and shorter essays, plus concept-driven visual stories and contributors across the globe, the [...]
Okiie Hashimoto is one of the giants of Japanese woodcut printmaking. His prints are quintessentially Japanese, but showcase his global influences.
The centenarian artist who married calligraphy with Tokyo’s post-war avant-garde.
In partnership with HaaT, creative director Makiko Minagawa talks tradition, textiles and a half-century of collaborating with Issey Miyake.
At the edge of Kyoto, a slow sailboat takes hotel guests downriver to a bygone world.
For Osaka’s extravagant 1970 Expo, Isamu Noguchi created a propulsive centerpiece that married Japanese and Western traditions.
Kiyomi Iwata shares her advice on how to create art while on the seesaw of children and career.
From the king of minimalism: “I find the essential and get the design down to a point where you can’t add or subtract from it.”
From demanding physical feats to quiet meditation, activities that push our bodies and minds to the limits are good for more than just a brief rush.
In Tokyo, Alex Anderson discovers a house of two halves.
The celebrated Japanese composer reveals the oddly shaped edges of his constantly questing mind.
With a dynamic mix of long-form journalism, interviews and shorter essays, plus concept-driven visual stories and contributors across the globe, the [...]
S,M,X,XL: Our editors apply a Koolhaasian taxonomy to some favorite architecture books.
On the architect who understood that modernism was much more than an aesthetic movement.
Frederik Werner on the launch of Norm Architects’ new furniture collaboration during Copenhagen’s 3 Days Of Design.
Kenzo Tange fired up one of the 20th century’s most ambitious architectural movements—but he kept his own home simple.
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