Japan - The Glass Magazine

Marsyas, Tate Modern. London - UK, 2002. Design by Anish Kapoor & Cecil Balmond. Photograph courtesy of Balmond Studio

From the archive – Glass talks to Cecil Balmond one of the world’s leading designers

September 9, 2016

From the Glass archive Designing “the next” – Cecil Balmond, one of the world’s leading designers, talks to Glass about the power of mathematics, the negotiations of expression and growing forms “The harm...

Gucci #24HourAce Latest Video Project Takes Over The World

Salome Baudino

July 27, 2016

Fashion, News

EARLIER this year, Glass reported Gucci’s House Creative Director Alessandro Michele's new direction towards the unification of fashion and art. Still photo from Hyo Joo's video - Courtesy of Gucci So it com...

Only Connect opens new show DR/OP in Onomichi, Hiroshima

Emily Rae Pellerin

May 16, 2016

Art, Avant Art, News

Only Connect opens new show DR/OP in Onomichi, Hiroshima ONLY CONNECT, the understated curatorial powerhouse based in Onomichi, Japan (whose healthily unruly inaugural show Dogs in a Room Glass featured last...

Two Cities: One Japan – Glass finds special places to stay and eat in Tokyo and Kyoto

Sean Sheehan

May 10, 2016

Dining, Feature, Travel

PLANNING a trip to Japan is a mouth-watering experience. There is so much to see and do (and eat!) that it would take a lifetime of holidays to really get a feel for the place. Skiing, walking, water sports, mo...

Glass talks to Jean-Francois Lanzetta, founder of Inhedited – maker of some of the world’s finest notebooks

Oliver Krug

March 4, 2016

Books, Design, Feature

“AND HOW are you with Suminagashi?” he asked. “Good, I think” she laughed down the line. He smiled to himself, knowing that he might just have found the missing ingredient for what was soon to become his firs...

Glass reviews Hiromi at the Southbank Centre

Arjun Sajip

December 14, 2015

Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

Never before have I attended a concert of two such distinct halves. Before the intermission, the unsavoury, almost relentlessly tasteless fusion jazz gradually begins giving way to more subdued sounds; but afte...

Fendi opens pop-up store in Ginza, Tokyo

Amanda Bernstein

November 26, 2015

Fashion, News, Shopping Guide

Last week saw the opening of Fendi, Ginza, a huge and playful pop-up store, which celebrates Fendi’s 50 years in Japan. It will be the first Fendi boutique in Japan to showcase Men’s and Women’s Collections, i...

Miyake Issey exhibition: The Work of Miyake Issey set to open in Tokyo, March 2016

Amanda Bernstein

November 12, 2015

Fashion, News

An exhibition devoted to designer Issey Miyake will be held at the National Art Center, Tokyo, which has focused on a host of established and emerging artistic talent since its opening in 2007. In 2010 Issey Mi...

Power and grace – Glass meets German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott one of the youngest and most prodigious classical musicians of our time

Nicola Kavanagh

October 23, 2015

Culture, Music

Power and grace – Glass meets German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott one of the youngest and most prodigious classical musicians of our time Alice Sara Ott has become one of the youngest and most ...

Hiroshima’s Dogs in a Room Exhibit is Daringly Confrontational

Emily Rae Pellerin

August 3, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, News

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The typical curator strives to create harmony amongst their artworks – they take a space, manipulate the artistry within it, and premeditate a navigable and digestible experience for the patron. In discordan...

Celebrating Japan’s Marine Day

Roberta Lister

July 21, 2015

Culture, Dining

In Japan, this week Marine Day: the nation’s newest national holiday – recognised since 1996 – takes place, and is a day to celebrate the bounty of the island’s surrounding seas. Back in London, the fine...

New Model Army – Glass meets Klara B

Justin van Vliet

May 19, 2015

Feature, Glass Models, Photography

Name: Klara B Nationality: French Age: 20 Agency: Profile Model Management How did you become a model? I was spotted on Facebook by a French photographer who introduced ...

A roving lens – Glass interview profiles Werner Bischof – one of Magnum Photos’ first members

Glass Archive

May 1, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, News, Photography, Travel

A roving lens – Glass interview profiles Werner Bischof – one of Magnum Photos’ first members The creative vision of Werner Bischof, one of Magnum’s first members, was cut short by a tragic car accident. His...

Contrarian couturier

Peter Yeoh

March 27, 2015

Archive, Culture, Culture of Commerce, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature, Glass Talents

Yohji Yamamoto, whose clothing designs revolutionised the sartorial codes of the late 20th century, reveals to Peter Yeoh his views on how intelligent fashion can transcend sexuality, cultural boundar...

The powder and the glory

Samantha Kuok Leese

March 23, 2015

Asia, Dining, Feature, Japan, Travel

The day begins with an explosion. Several, in fact, rumbling like thunder through the early morning snow. “Do you know what that is?” “If I had to guess, I’d say avalanche control.” “Very good gues...

Tomas Maier and Bottega Veneta campaign to save Japanese Modernist architecture

Louise Lui

December 12, 2014

Asia, Avant Art, Culture, Design, Glass Design, Japan, News, Travel

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While traditional Japanese architecture is cherished by many, much of the country’s post-war structures are at risk of being demolished or changed beyond recognition. In preparation for the 2020 Olympics, a few...

An unrestrained eye

Peter Yeoh

August 1, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Culture, Feature

The Glass Archive presents a special three-part series – The unflinching lens Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama,  three eminent Japanese post-war photographers, have captured radical views of a c...

PFW AW14: Yohji Yamamoto

Cynthia Gregoire

March 2, 2014

News

Yohji Yamamoto showcased for AW14 at Paris’ Theatre National de Chaillot alongside the Eiffel Tower during Paris Fashion Week. The 70-year-old Japanese designer showed no signs of slowing down as his compellin...

Still got it: Japan

Ruthie Holloway

December 6, 2012

Asia, Culture, Feature, Japan, Travel

C’mon, admit it. Japanese creativity bleeds heavily to all corners of art, fashion, design and architecture on a global scale, and more so than many other countries that are credited with a trendsetting nat...

Vacant expression

Nicola Kavanagh

August 22, 2012

Avant Art, Feature

Still Alive. Those are the words spray-painted in English and Japanese across the side of an abandoned house in an old, somewhat forgotten, district of Onomichi, Japan. Not a house victim to graffiti, but r...

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