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Sorayumebako by Yukio Kimura
Japanese interior designer Yukio Kimura has created this combined cafe, gallery and second-hand book shop in Osaka, Japan.
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Called Sorayumebako, the interior is lined with a wooden grid supporting shelves for the books and frames for the artwork.
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The whole space is painted in orange, including walls, ceiling, floor and all the furniture.
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Photographs are by Kiyotoshi Takashima.
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Here is more information from the designer:
Sorayumebako
It is located in the area where locals live in, far away from the busy commercial centre. I designed the shop with the concept of "not to blend in the surrounding", following my client's request to reflect the meaning of "Sorayumebako" to the actual design.
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"Sorayume" is a Japanese word meaning "a fabricated dream" to tell people as if you actually dreamed it. Having this concept in mind, I tried to create space where visitors feel as if they stepped into another world, a dream.
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The key colour of orange interprets the time between day and night, summer and winter, and yin and yang. It reveals that this is a place for visitors to change their mind from yang "daily life" to yin "private life". I only used one colour in order to enhance visitor's awareness through the shop from within and without.
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For letting visitors associate "bako" (the variant form of "hako") meaning "a box" in English, I lined a series of portal frames from the entrance to the shop. Using this unique structure, I had tables, bookshelves, exhibition panels and projector panels built-in, in order to make use of space for many different occasions.
Design: kraf•te, Yukio Kimura
Sign Graphics: kraf•te, Yukiko Yamamoto
Collaboration / Lighting: Fukunishi Electric Corporation, Yoshino Higashi
Constructi+on: Up Life
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