This project is the result of some unconsciousness mixed with a lot of admiration. The unconsciousness came from the side of the clients, Neus and Kenji of Can Kenji team, commissioning his new Japanese restaurant "izakaya" to a team that had never designed a restaurant and not even been in Japan. The admiration is ours to a culture as unknown as admired. 

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Architects: MIEL Arquitectos

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Area: 75.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Asier Rua

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This project is the result of some unconsciousness mixed with a lot of admiration. The unconsciousness came from the side of the clients, Neus and Kenji of Can Kenji team, commissioning his new Japanese restaurant "izakaya" to a team that had never designed a restaurant and not even been in Japan. The admiration is ours to a culture as unknown as admired. 
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Which one is our Japan" The one of the videogames and the lights of Tokio, the Japan of Frank Lloyd Wright, in the mood for love, their admired tradition of periodically rebuilt some temples to preserve the touch and smell for its sensorial perception, the House of Sugimoto and of course In Praise with Shadows of Tanizaki. 

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All of that, without any order or ambition, joint to a healthy obsession...