Transience has come to inform so much of Japan’s culture — even its sense of self.

Travel A new book captures the kitschy allure of Japanese ‘love hotels’ For his latest project, French photographer François Prost documents the whimsical façades that characterise these erotic ...

The hygge-meets-wabi-sabi interior trend that emphasizes natural materials and minimalism is seeing an explosion in interest.

“I just had this fantasy of doing something from a bird's eye view of an 18th century English village," says Libertine founder Johnson Hartig, who designed the wallpaper for Schumacher.

Meet Japan’s Original Decluttering Guru (No, Not That One) Before Marie Kondo stormed into the global consciousness, Hideko Yamashita taught Japan the art of creating tidier spaces.

When Microsoft debuted its landmark operating system Windows XP in the fall of 2001, the default desktop wallpaper “Bliss” ended up becoming the most viewed photograph in the world.

A former warehouse and art studio has been reimagined as a generous 600-square-metre home that embraces wabi-sabi – the Japanese aesthetic that embraces imperfection and respects nature.

‘Wabi-sabi’ is typically described as a traditional Japanese aesthetic: the beauty of something perfectly imperfect, in the sense of ‘flawed’ or ‘unfinished.’ ...

Design & Interiors Newly-opened Audo in Tokyo brings Copenhagen aesthetic to Japan Denmark meets Japan: Audo Tokyo opens with a serene series of scenescapes that offers a sensory immersion in the ...