Just a couple of photos I took while in Kyoto and Hong Kong last week:
The Third Eye: Olafur Eliasson's installations in the world's Louis Vuitton windows. Here's Hong Kong, which required three to fill it up:
A vintage mid-century Japanese prefab house that looks surprisingly modern these days, and increasingly rare: post-war buildings don't tend to stick around in Japan this long:
I rather impulsively bought an ironing board at Muji, but with no practical way to take it home, I ended up leaving it at the hotel. It was a damn fine-looking ironing board, though, let me tell you.
I mention it because the same hoarding impulse struck me when I saw this eminently restorable black lacquer-finish credenza on the street in Kyoto. The backside was gorgeous, actually. Somehow, I managed to think through--and abandon--any ideas for shipping this bad boy before dragging it across the street to the hotel.
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