Word: nogizaka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furniture and interiors. There is only a minuscule residential market for high design, since the homes of even most well-to-do Japanese are small. Instead, the work is almost all commercial -- boutiques, department stores, cafes, bars. Take, for instance, Lucchino's, a bar in Tokyo's chic Nogizaka district. It is a medium-size space for Japan; the lighting is theatrically pink and orange, the fixtures neo-1920s. A significant detail: the middle tier of the long, three-tier art deco glass bar is cracked deliberately. One might as well be in Milan. Lucchino's is the work...
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