MOLTENI&C Flagship Store in TOKYO

Molteni&C has assigned to Patricia Urquiola, architect and designer of international fame, the design of the new Flagship Store of Tokyo situated in the renowned Minami Aoyama district. Its garden limits with the Nezu Museum, one of Kengo Kuma’s masterpieces. Patricia Urquiola, always interested in local cultural background as lymph for her projects, rediscovers in views of the Komyo-in temple of Kyoto new perspective filters able to guarantee through modern re-elaborations contemporary effects that concern the relation between interior and exterior. Thus was born a graphic wall 7m high made of local cedar as a filter between interior space and the rising sun. The result is a perfect fusion of Japanese traditional high-end style and Italian design. The relationship that ties Molteni&C to the figure of architect Gio Ponti is a further cue sparking interest in the rediscovery of geometries. Patricia Urquiola grasps and reinterprets Ponti’s graphic detail, contextualizing it in the Japanese interior project for Molteni&C, creating full-height screens in stopsol glass able to separate rooms in a light manner, at the same time guaranteeing unexpected perspective effects. MOLTENI&C FLAGSHIP STORE 6-4-6 ALMOST BLUE-B MINAMI AOYAMA MINATO-KU TOKYO - 107-0062 T +81-3-3400-3322 INFO@MOLTENI.JP 11AM-7PM CLOSED ON WEDNESDAY