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AFTERNOON TEA LIVING REMIX
SHINJUKU 1

AFTERNOON TEA LIVING REMIX SHINJUKU 1

INTERIOR DESIGN
CATEGORY: Retail, Goods, Furniture
LOCATION: Shinjuku (Flags), Tokyo
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kozo Takayama
YEAR: March 2013
URL: http://www.afternoon-tea.net

“Fusion of Old & New” – re-mixing of traditional and modern things.

A shop for a new label “Afternoon Tea LIVING ReMIX”, which has been launched to offer fresh ideas for sophisticated lifestyle of mature and independent grown-ups has opened in Shinjuku FLAGS located right next to Shinjuku Station, one of the busiest stations in Tokyo.

The theme of the design comes from “Friend’s holiday house” where people gather with their friends to spend a relaxing yet exciting weekend together.

Assigning each zone with a classification according to its category such as Garden, Kitchen, Living Room, Bathroom, Study and Closet, it is designed to provide the exhilaration of experiencing the transition of various scenes.

For the entrance, instead of adopting traditional bricks for the exterior, modern ceramic tiles were employed, though in a traditional manner, to achieve the brand concept of “re-mixing of things traditional and things modern” at the entrance.

自由な大人のためのライフスタイルを提案する新業態、Afternoon Tea LIVING ReMIXが新宿FLAGSにオープンしました。

次の週末を友人たちと刺激的にゆっくり過ごすイメージで、友人の別荘[holiday house]をテーマにデザインを手掛けました。

空間をカテゴリーごとに、ガーデン・キッチン・リビング・バス・スタディ・クローゼットにシーンを分け、空間の移り変わりを体感で楽しめるよう工夫しました。

外装に伝統的なレンガを採用する代わりに、モダンなセラミックタイルを同じ工法にて使用することで、「伝統的なものと現代的なものをリミックスする」というブランドコンセプトをエントランスでも表現しました。