Danielle Demetriou

1 week ago | design-anthology.com | Danielle Demetriou

At Issey Miyake Ginza | Cube in Tokyo, the experience begins outside: the white facade is punctuated by vivid green imagery of butterbur and poetic abstractions of whispering bamboo groves and water flowing over river pebbles by writer Yuko Tanaka. Inside, the heart of the space is wrapped in a spiral of textile in softly gradated shades of black, an unfinished fabric called hogushi gasuri. Light passes through its loose weave, the fabric gently swaying like underwater seaweed.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Danielle Demetriou

It’s morning rush hour in Shibuya station. Trains pause at a tangle of platforms inside the central Tokyo hub – all punctual to the minute, impossibly clean and heaving with a steady flow of office workers. But Japanese trains are not just litter-free and on-time. Stepping (or squeezing) on board reveals another unique quality: despite the mass of humanity crammed into a confined space, carriages are calmly steeped in silence.

4 weeks ago | japantimes.co.jp | Danielle Demetriou

It’s tangly, brown and fibrous — and for centuries, it’s been cut, woven and crafted by Japanese artisans to make sturdy tools for daily life, from brooms and brushes to ropes and nets. Now, the natural bark of the shuro palm tree has been reimagined by the emerging designer Kazuki Nagasawa, who has transformed the traditional material into an ethereal, light-filtering collection of contemporary objects.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Danielle Demetriou

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Cloud-brushing skyscrapers, flashing neon and seas of salarymen. The rhythmic whisk of matcha in the stillness of a tatami mat tea room. The dancing hands of a sushi chef slicing sashimi on a cypress wood counter. Decadent quantities of world-class powder snow. Steam rising from a hot spring onsen bath. And the list goes on.

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Danielle Demetriou

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