SPECIAL FEATURE 1

Lifestyle and Design as Discussed with These 18 People

Each year in the autumn, Tokyo becomes tinted in the hues of design. In particular, furniture and interior manufacturers and brands choose this time to announce their new collections. What direction should furniture and interior design be taking? We selected key people in the fields of creation, support and sales of interior design and asked them what they thought.

Part 1 – People who create design
Hiroshi Yoneya
Jean-Marie Massaud
Rie Isono
Motomi Kawakami
DRILL DESIGN
Ranch Box
Hisae Igarashi
Jin-Hae Choi of LG Electronics Inc.
Naoki Terada

Part 2 – People who support design
Shigeki Miyamoto
Yasuo Kuroki
Kenji Kawasaki
Taiichi Kirimoto
Tomoyo Nonaka - Chairman, Sanyo Electric

Part 3 – People who sell design
Lars Petersson, President & CEO, IKEA Japan K.K
Fumio Takashima – President, BALS Corporation
Graham Fry – British Ambassador to Japan



SPECIAL FEATURE 2: Nikkei Design and Nikkei Architecture Joint Project 

What to see at Tokyo Design Week and Design Tide in Tokyo 2006