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Garden By Be Area by Kazutoyo Yamamoto
Japanese designer Kazutoyo Yamamoto of Dessence has created a beauty salon featuring hanging vines in Saitama, Japan.
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Called Garden By Be Area, the project aims to bring the outdoors in by separating booth-like spaces with suspended vines.
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A ceiling of foliage covers the hair-washing area, which features parquet flooring and wooden cabinets.
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The glass-fronted waiting room features two large trees and wooden furniture.
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The exterior of the salon is clad in a reflective, faceted surface.
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Yamamoto says he sought to create a space "that expressed harmony with modern nature".
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Photographs are by Noriyuki Yano / Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Here's some more information from Dessence:
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"Garden" is born in the woods and the forest by add hand of human. And, it was thought that the space where the human coexisted with nature there was born.
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It is connected with nature through "tool=artificial material" when we are connected with nature in the garden in our time.
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I was able to feel hand of human (artificial material), and aimed at the space that expressed harmony with modern nature.
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Project : GARDEN by be area (Beauty Salon)
Site : Saitama,Japan
Concept : The human and nature through "garden".
Designed by Kazutoyo Yamamoto / dessence co.ltd
Photo by Noriyuki Yano / Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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