Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has unveiled a boutique hotel in Tokyo, featuring 24 new design products.
K5 Tokyo occupies a converted bank building next to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which survived bombing during the second world war.

Claesson Koivisto Rune's team adopted an "everything-is-possible attitude" to design and delivered the hotel in just 14 months.
As well as overseeing the architecture and interior design, they designed all kinds of products, from a pencil to a bespoke Tokyobike.

Studio co-founder Ola Rune said that K5 Tokyo is the best project they have ever worked on.
"This is emphatically how we feel at the moment," he told Dezeen.
"The attitude of all involved has been unlike any previous project that we have been involved with," he said. "Yet, gratifyingly, the result is a coherent (and sometimes deliberately disparate) whole, that has not left any details to chance."
The design is based around the idea of "aimai", a Japanese word used to positively describe things that are ambiguous, obscure or vague. It inspired a layout where furniture, textiles and plants are used in place of walls, to create more subtle divisions.
Contemporary details and furnishings help to brighten up the building's ageing but characterful interiors, while plants are intended to create the feeling of an urban oasis.

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