LIVING SPACE STUDIES in JAPAN
居住空間学

CHAPTER 1
CREATING A PLACE LIKE NO OTHER

Colorful Souvenirs from Foreign Travels
Fill Every Corner of the Room.
Mami Jin / director of Pasand

A Retreat House
That Lets the Mind Roam Freely.
Takayuki Fujii / designer of nonnative

Washed Up on the Shore,
They Built a Hut and Planted a Garden.
Shigeo Goto / editor
Nagisa Goto / digital creator

A Home Remodeled for a
Changing Lifestyle.
Takashi Kumagai / creative director, stylist

A Quiet Home in the Kyoto Hills,
for Thinking Slowly and Deeply.
Yoshitaka Haba / founder of Bach, book curator
Fang / owner of Kissa Fang

An Architect Dedicates This “Home of
Good Earth” to His Parents.
Naoko Nishiguchi / resident, architect’s mother
Ken Nishiguchi / architect

A Lab and Editing Room of How We Live.
Hiroshi Eguchi / distiller
Yuko Yamamoto / illustrator

Life in a Classic Townhouse.
Shigeki Hattori / director of graf

A Baker’s House Filled
with Soothing Natural Light.
Yoshihisa Nagaya / owner of Tsuki to Pierrot

A Remodeled Vernacular House
in Tambasasayama.
Nobuyuki Kosuge, Erina Kambayashi /
owners of archipelago

A Fresh and Simple Building Perfect for
Cherished Furniture and Crafts.
Hiroyuki Okabayashi /
machine tool manufacturer employee

CHAPTER 2
TAKING OVER A HOME

The White Modernist House Created
by a Friendship between Architect and Artist.
“Genichiro Inokuma’s House”
in Denenchofu.

G House (now Tsudayama House)
Preserving a Modernist Home
Designed by Miho Hamaguchi.

CABIN
A Little House Made for Life Amid Nature.
Villa Fukumura

A 17-year Tale about a House
in the Mountains.
Setsumasa Kobayashi / founder of . . . . . Research

Photographer Yoko Takahashi
Converses with a House
Designed by Mayumi Miyawaki.

Nara-san’s Home
A Place for Conversations with Himself.

CHAPTER 3
LIFE IN SCANDINAVIA AND UK

An Artful Fusion of Danish
and Japanese Aesthetics.
Malene Hvidt / architect, designer
Nikolaj Lorentz Mentz / product and interior designer

The Home of Finland’s Premier
Design Couple.
Vuokko Nurmesniemi / designer
Antti Nurmesniemi / designer

Taking Up Life in a Jacobsen Home.
Bo Linnemann / architect, graphic designer, professor

A Postmodern Microcosm:
the Home of Charles Jencks
Charles Jencks / architectural critic, landscape designer