Where They Create Japan

Photographer: Paul BarberaPaul Barbera was born in Melbourne, Australia and currently resides in New York City. He is a photographer with an observational reportage style whose work spans from cultural anthropology through to luxury living, working with people and interiors. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts. With an adaptable yet distinct visual approach, his assignments regularly take him around the globe, working with publications like Mr Porter (shooting Massimo Vitali), Vogue Living (covering the Milan Design Fair), Wallpaper*, Frame (shooting Gaetano Pesce) and Elle De¿cor, with and clients including Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Starbucks, Bugaboo and Dedon. He has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review and Forbes. His previous book in this series, Where They Create (Frame Publishers), is available globally. Barbera has recently turned his long-term online passion project Love Lost Project into an ongoing series of publications with a limited-edition book available from Dashwood Books in New York.Text by Kanae HasegawaKanae Hasegawa is a design journalist who lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Her interest in the insatiable desire of humans - especially artists and other creatives - to express themselves through visual art or objects led her to study the history of art and design. Hasegawa has written for a number of previous books from Frame Publishers and is a regular contributor to numerous design-led publications, such as Frame, Axis and Departures.

Featuring the work of photographer Paul Barbera, this book documents creativity in 32 Japanese studios.Photographer Paul Barbera presents his next volume in the Where They Create series - this time with a different approach, by exploring the theme of his series through geographical locales. Reinvigorated by his first visit to Japan in five years, he makes this country the starting point of this new volume. Through the lens of creative spaces, Barbera chronicles his journey as he uncovers how contemporary Japanese design, art and creative thinking, has influenced and inspired the world (and vice versa).Barbera's search is simple and clear: he only visits the studios of people whose work he loves and admires, and who have inspiring spaces. For this book, Barbera was invited to shoot the studios of 32 creatives like Anrealage, Kengo Kuma, Wonderwall, Nendo, Tadao Ando, Tokujin Yoshioka, Toyo Ito and many more. Interviews with these creators reveal how their daily environment influences their output.

FOREWORDS4tyler brûlé6 nicola formichetti8hidetoshi nakata 10mineaki saito12 roger pulversPREFACE14 paul barberaSTUDIOS18 rikako nagashima28 kohei nawa38 schemata architects48 mariko mori58 kengo kuma68 anrealage76 wonderwall86 shinji ohmaki96 tokujin yoshioka106 takahiro iwasaki114 nendo122 kenya hara132 nuno140 kaibutsu150 noritaka tatehana160 makoto azuma 170 white mountaineering178 tadao ando188 takahashi hiroko198 sou fujimoto206 teruhiro yanagihara216toyo ito226 discovered234 simplicity242 engineered garments250 rhino inc.258 kyotaro266 satoru aoyama274 takashi kumagai284 christopher nemeth292 party302 torafuCREDITS312