The Contemporary Tea House
The tea house is one of Japan’s most original and significant architectural forms—a small, simple space for the tea ceremony that traditionally requires a hearth, straw-mat flooring and a low entrance. Modern …
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Matthew Dear: Nugroove vol. 8
For the either installment of our Nugroove series, we go to Michigan and check in with electronic musician Matthew Dear before his first-even live show
Dustin Lynn
When not traveling to far-flung places to shoot the documentaries he's reknowned for, film maker Dustin Lynn calls NYC home. He's acclaimed for his cinematography and art direction work with musician Jack …
Michael Fakesch: Dos
Imagine an alternate universe where Jamie Lidell sits high on top of the Billboard charts, enjoying Justin Timberlake-sized superstardom, while Matthew Herbert gets paid seven figures to make beats for P. Diddy. …
Robert Adam Mayer
Despite having worked with some of the world's biggest celebrities and publications (including The New York Times, Allure, Harvard Magazine, The Age and Popular Science) NYC-based photographer Robert Adam Mayer remains down-to-earth …
Virgin Gorillaz Train
This is how public transport should be done. Unveiled Monday and travelling back and forth between London and Manchester, this tricked-out locomotive from Gorillaz aritst Jamie Hewlett is to promote the forthcoming …
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Tord Boontje
We sit down with Dutch designer Tord Boontje at the most recent ICFF, where he airs his distaste for the whole concept of furniture fairs
FlyTower by Ackroyd & Harvey
Earlier this month, British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey began seeding the National Theatre's Lyttelton Flytower. Working with as many as 16 helpers, the artists schlepped two and a half tons …
The Borderline: Enlightenment x Towa Tei
An exhibition of new lithographs by Enlightenment's Hiro Sugiyama opens tomorrow, 26 May 2007, at the highly–acclaimed Hiromi Yoshii gallery in Kiyosumi, Tokyo. Sugiyama's lithographs are a wonderfully fresh reinterpretation of the …
Salaryman Services
When you're a salaryman (Japanese white–collar worker), time is precious. You've got to look your best. Always. So, in between meetings with clients, busy business men head over to Menza where they …