Art & Design
An old house decorated with timeless furniture and modern art—
the perfect harmony of the authentic. Enjoy the aesthetics of function of a traditional house not bound by the folk art style.
Izumi is a unique space where art and architecture intertwine.
The house is equipped with masterpieces of art-class furniture such as Finn Juhl’s Chieftain Chair, Hans Wegner’s Circle Chair, and Le Corbusier’s LC3 sofa and chairs, and modern art pieces have been carefully placed throughout the space. Here you can relax in a one-of-a-kind space that does not feel old despite the age of the building.
Architectural design and art
planning by Mitsuyoshi Miyazaki of Hagi Studio.
Mitsuyoshi Miyazaki
HAGISTUDIO
Mitsuyoshi Miyazaki was born in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture in 1982. After earning his master's degree from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2008, he went to work for Arata Isozaki & Associates. In 2011, he opened his own architectural design and production studio, and since 2013, his company has worked on renovating old apartments and homes and designing restaurants and lodging facilities from his base in the Yanaka district of Tokyo. He also gives lectures throughout Japan and helps organize Renovation School projects that encourage the utilization of empty real estate in an effort to rediscover the latent value of an area.
[Works]
Hagiso, Hanare, Landabout, Nishi-Nippori Scramble
3D-printed art that almost seems alive.
Yasutaka Fukuda
Yasutaka Fukuda was born in Gunma Prefecture in 1977. After graduating from the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Art and Design at Musashino Art University, he taught himself three-dimensional computer graphics and visual effects and began creating digital art. In January 2014, he established his own company, Fukupoly. He is active in a wide range of fields, from producing computer graphics for corporate commercials and music videos, creating videos with computer graphics and visual effects, producing installations, creating 3D models with a 3D printer, and producing 360-degree spatial videos using a head-mounted display.
[Awards]
Mitsuko Okamoto Prize, Spiral Independent Creators Festival 2016 (SICF17); Excellence Prize, Tokyo Midtown Awards 2016; Grand Prix, Adobe Max Challenge 2018
Works that embody the snow country,
inspired by the 17th-century book
Hokuetsu Seppu and Mt. Makihata.
Ryo Shimizu
Ryo Shimizu was born in Kagawa Prefecture 1977 and currently lives in Kanagawa Prefecture. Interested in the origins of written characters and their magical elements, he combines various forms of expression to create works that suggest the possibility of reimagining everyday experiences and the connections between things. Since 2020, he has been observing, researching, and photographing landforms, flora, and fauna around the Izu Peninsula, and has been creating works on the subject of humans before writing, which in turn, highlight the advantages and disadvantages brought about by the invention of writing.
[Awards and Exhibitions]
Spiral Prize, Spiral Independent Creators Festival 2010 (SICF11); LICC Artist of the Year, London International Creative Competition 2019. Major exhibitions and projects include the Treasure Hill Art Village in Taiwan (2015) and the Suruganokuni Art Festival Fujinoyama Biennale (2014, 2016, 2020).
Experience the delicate expression of
the transition of time.
Reiko Kinoshita
Reiko Kinoshita was born in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1982 and currently resides in Tokyo. In 2009, she graduated from the Painting Course in the Graduate School of Art and Design at Musashino Art University. Her work, which is based on the question of whether the passage of time itself can be translated to the canvas, emphasizes the materials she paints on (i.e., the support), including cloth and paper. She traces physical features like wrinkles and folds and uses phenomena such as weathering and photosensitivity as a guide to create paintings that serve as a record of time stored in the memory of the material, while intervening with layers of misted paint and other human touches.
[Exhibitions]
Major exhibitions include “Hi No Naka No Ten” at the Kiyosu City Haruhi Museum of Art (2015), “Emerging Artists Exhibition” at Ginza Atrium (Ginza Tsutaya Books) (2021), and “Kintsugi” at ANA InterContinental Tokyo (2021).
Creative direction and planning:
Tohru Iwasa, Jiyujin Inc.
Toru Iwasa
Toru Iwasa was born in Tokyo in 1967. He started Jiyujin as a design firm in 1989 while still enrolled at Musashino Art University, later assuming the post of editor after launching the lifestyle magazine Jiyujin in 2000. He oversaw the creative direction of Satoyama Jujo, which opened in 2014 in the Osawa Onsen district of Niigata Prefecture and won the Good Design Award Best 100 the same year. He also oversees the planning, direction, and operational support for other hotels and restaurants outside of the Jiyujin group. He currently serves as a Visiting Professor at Tama Art University. In 2021, he served as a judge for the Good Design Award.
[Awards]
Good Design Award Best 100 (for Satoyama Jujo) (2014); Small and Medium Enterprise Agency Commissioner’s Prize for Production Design (2014); Good Design Award Best 100 (for Hakone Honbako) (2019); Special Prize, Cool Japan Matching Award 2019 (for Hotel Koo Otsu Hyakucho) (2020)