Design Approach
A 700 sqm residence whose exposed-concrete frame is answered by an interior in timber and stone. A marble long table, sculptural pendants and japandi furniture compositions erase the boundary between Japanese and Western, producing one unified register. The building converses with the scale of Kyoto itself and the dialogue between tradition and contemporary architecture in Sakyo. The owner's library and daily circulation were woven precisely into the plan.
Challenge & approach
Challenge
Italian furniture inside an exposed-concrete frame, in Kyoto's Sakyo ward — a combination the owner himself called "honestly a difficult theme."
Approach
Unified in a Japandi direction: a long marble table and sculptural pendants as anchors, the owner's library and daily circulation woven in, the Japanese-Western boundary dissolved.
Outcome
In the owner's words: "an air that is neither Japanese nor Western — it belongs only to our home."
Client's Voice
Pairing Italian luxury furniture with an exposed-concrete frame in Kyoto sounded like a hard brief. The team resolved it with a Japandi direction — the marble long table and sculptural pendants now sit perfectly inside the Kyoto-scale rooms. The result is neither pure Japanese nor pure Western. It feels like the air our family always wanted.