The innovative Cartesia Desk, developed with traditional wooden craftsmanship from Tokushima in Japan, possesses a really special drawer mechanism, a 2-directional structure, allowing you to access multiple storage at the same time as well as eliminating blind spots in the back of each drawer.

Ii is made by Japanese furniture manufacturer COLORS and its name is inspired by Rene Descartes and its Cartesian coordination system. This sophisticated business desk was designed to assist you. In addition to its clever Cartesia drawer system, it features a small side-drawer to store electric cables and a deeper one for documents or large files. The Cartesia desk is equally suitable for home and office use. With its modern sharp design and its plenty ergonomic features it will be your perfect working partner.

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Motohiko Odani is a well known contemporary Japanese sculptor whose imaginative, elegant, yet unsettling works leave the viewer breathless.

“Right now I have this strong Futurist interest in how to capture the concepts of movement and transformation, dynamism and speed in sculpture” Odani said. He also stated that he hopes to “give form to what the eyes cannot see…the phantoms that are hidden inside us,” his work (as if by a process of transference) is full of unsettling sensations: unsettling because they feel contradictory. With his stunning creations Motohiko Odani is reaching at the ever-important themes of death, love, national identity and the ethereal spiritual side of life, through abstract concepts characterized by his own unique personal style.

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Japanese artist Sayaka Ganz creates amazing animal sculptures made of salvaged plastic parts. Her breathtaking creations are characterized by an incredible sense of motion and her inspiration is supported by a genuine belief that “If we value our resources we will waste less.”

Driven by a combination of her passion for fitting odd shapes together and a sympathy towards discarded objects, Sayaka Ganz creates her amazing plastic animals from thrift store plastics. Sayaka grew up in Japan and several other different countries, but she was raised under the Japanese philosophy of Shinto. Shinto beliefs are such that all objects and organisms have spirits. The constant need to adjust to a new environment also gave Sayaka a strong desire to fit in and create harmony around her. By creating her stunning animal sculptures she is engaging in a process of reclamation and liberation, which liberates her as an artist.

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The Extra Normal Wall Clock designed by Ross McBride for Japanese Normal Timepieces is sleek, elegant and utterly minimalist but at the same time flawlessly retains its practicality.

At first glance, an elegant, minimal wall clock. But things are not so simple. A subtle effect is taking place, as elusive numbers pass in and out of view. The “secret of the clock” is the ingenious “hour hand” that is actually a disk, with the hour hand shape reversed out, exposing the numbered face beneath. With this clever solution a subtle effect is taking place, as elusive numbers pass in and out of view.

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The spectacular Ozone Bar designed by Wonderwall is located on the top 118^th floor of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Hong Kong and its majestic view complements the striking interior design.

Japanese design studio Wonderwall is mostly known for their abstract, minimalist styling. BAPE, FRED PERRY LAUREL and A.P.C retail stores are recognized examples of Wonderwall’s work. This time however Wonderwall’s founder, Masamichi Katayama strays from his signature style and creates an extremely complex space. The Ozone Bar is architectural, bold, colorful, bizarre, and even a bit surreal. A remarkable and ultra-modern space infused with countless structural details that shape its own unmistakable identity…….

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Silent Office is a sleek, sexy and theatrical office complex located in Tokyo and built by Takashi Yamaguchi & associates, everything inside looks so “silent” and composed, that it feels as if you could hear an ant moving inside it…

The client for this project is carrying a business of candy wholesale, therefore except offices space, storehouse and logistics facilities where required. The architecture is composed of the closed space to catch silence. In a rectangular box is divided by two slits. The interval between those parts leads the air, the wind and the light into the office itself. To ensure an effective internal space, while respecting the legislative outline of the allowed building volume, the ceiling’s height of the top floor is higher on the west side than the east one. This arrangement is not only functional, but also gives to the place some complexity.

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Step into the summer with a classic winter inspired t-shirt by Japanese brand White Mountaineering.

White Mountaineering is a relatively new men’s clothing brand based in Japan, as one can easily guess their garments are mostly winter inspired. Their unique styling is a combination of high fashion with traditional outdoors elements. For Spring-Summer 2012 among other interesting pieces, White Mountaineering presents a collection of stylish jacquard border t-shirts.

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Japanese artist Yuki Matsueda creates breathtaking 3D art by taking complimentary elements from the image, extruding them off the background and encompassing them in acrylic.

With modern art becoming increasingly complex and sophisticated, many artists are trying to differ by adding more and more elements into their artworks. Yuki Matsueda however lets the elements escape from his artworks. The end result is amazing and the optical trick crates a unique visual effect. The main symbolism of Matsueda’s artworks is the need to escape from a two dimensional “limited” world and expand into more dimensions. The little green exit guy is sprinting out of his frame, while the eggs jump of their shell.

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