Karimoku opens Kyoto showroom informed by traditional houses and temple gardens
Designer Keiji Ashizawa has created the interior of Japanese furniture brand Karimoku's second showroom, which features a combination of its own wooden furniture and pieces by local artists and artisans.
Set in a three-storey building, the brand describes Karimoku Commons Kyoto as a "hybrid space", which will function as a showroom and also house office spaces for employees.
The space is located inside a former machiya ? a traditional Japanese wooden townhouse ? in Kyoto, a city known for its temples, Shinto shrines and gardens.
The showroom is located in a Kyoto townhouse
Ashizawa, who has worked with Karimoku for years and also designed its first showroom in Tokyo, looked to the history of both the city and the building when designing the interior. "I really wanted to use the language of the townhouse and also took inspiration from Kyoto gardens," Ashizawa told Dezeen.
For the showroom's ground floor area, he drew on the doma areas in traditional Japanese homes, which had bare dirt floors and functioned as a bridge between the indoors and the outdoors.
It features wood furniture and wood panelling by Karimoku
Here, Ashizawa placed furniture in light-coloured wood, including chairs by British architect Norman Foster and pieces by Danish studio Norm Architects and Ashizawa himself.
The floor is grey concrete, which was matched by pale-grey plaster walls and a ceiling in the same colour.
Art and ceramics by Japanese artists decorate the space
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