The Japanese restaurant, AKIRA, is on the first floor of Japan House London in Kensington. Named after Chef Shimizu Akira, the restaurant presents a Japanese dining experience based on Akira’s ‘trinity of cooking’ principles – food, tableware and presentation …
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With his dishes, young chef Dominik Edlinger is focusing on international accents with a regional touch in addition to the Japanese influence. Inspired by the changing times, he takes up the topic of sustainability with his regional sushi …
Discover the exceptional artistry and rich traditions being kept alive by Japanese artisans in the 21st century …
The Japanese city of Kobe is part of the international UNESCO Creative Cities Network – and rightly so! Kenji Kondo give us an insight into the creative culture …
I received some incense sticks as a souvenir from our neighbour following a trip to Asia. I was eight years old at the time and they seemed infinitely precious to me. They smelt different to anything I’d encountered up until that point, and soon the whole linen cupboard where they were put smelt the same, enchanting and exotic …
The Japanese city of Nagoya is part of the international UNESCO Creative Cities Network – and rightly so! Eriko Esaka gives us an insight into the creative culture …
Golden temples that glitter in the sun, Shintō shrines, zen gardens and seeing a geisha – that’s what summarises Japan’s former imperial capital Kyoto. The latest news is that the Ace Hotel group is opening its first location in Japan!
Apparently, in Japan you can go and watch sumo wrestlers training then have breakfast with them afterwards. That was something I wanted to experience …
Grace Elizabeth and Anok Yai dance a couture duet for Vogue Japan – a fashion film by Nick Knight
Nick Knight showcases Grace Elizabeth and Anok Yai dancing a couture duet as they swirl and giggle in this ethereal fashion film for Vogue Japan’s January 2020 issue…
Tokusen Kashikosa snakewood Japanese chopsticks are another step up from ebony or rosewood, and a must-have for lovers of Japanese culinary culture…
REOPENING ON SEPTEMBER 12th, 2019!
The World Capital of Architecture 2023 has begun. And Danish Architecture Center is proud to reveal the more than 50 exclusive sites you can visit during the Danish premiere of Open House Copenhagen…
The Klaus Tschira Foundation is supporting a project in which Nobel Prize winners put their prize-worthy ideas on paper with wax crayon…
Die 7. Ausgabe des Isola Design Festivals www.isola.design/mdw23, das von der digitalen und physischen Designplattform Isola organisiert wird, wird die Besucher während der Mailänder Designwoche vom 18. bis 23. April 2023 begrüßen.
Since launching in 2017, Acne Studios’ Musubi bag has gone through numerous iterations. Woven or embellished, multicolored to monochrome, miniature to extra small. Following on from the twisted wedding of the SS23 show, the new Musubi bags are reshaping familiar ideas of mundane symbolism…
Art is everywhere in Es Racó d’Artà, a unique enclave in the Balearic Islands. Today we dedicate ourselves to a very special artist whose works can be seen and felt in different places of this extraordinary place …
The word “nagomi” sounds mysterious and promising: is it the name of a Central African desert? Are the Nagomi an indigenous Amazonian tribe? Or is it the name of a newly opened celebrity restaurant in Kensington? None of these things are nagomi – or maybe somehow they are, as the three melodious syllables represent the Japanese art of achieving harmony and balance in life by incorporating opposites and conflict…