Comment by socalgal2
6 days ago
> Funny thing is how for interior design they do a full 180 and typically go very minimalistic.
Only if they are well to do. Most family houses in Japan are crammed full of stuff with very little "design".
6 days ago
> Funny thing is how for interior design they do a full 180 and typically go very minimalistic.
Only if they are well to do. Most family houses in Japan are crammed full of stuff with very little "design".
I was wondered that. Like from movies or documentaries, etc. Very nice, clear, order, minimalistic. Then I was looking to buy a house and I found a site with "almost" abandoned house for sale.
My God. Everything , everywhre, no design ( haha ), no exceptions. People were actually living there.
Had a cultural shock.
I do live in Japan and good god, I have never seen such messy people anywhere else in the world. The offices of all my Japanese colleagues are piles upon piles of documents and boxes without any kind of order.
But the cities themselves are like that. There is zero urban planning, just buildings thrown around in impossible non-Euclidean patterns.
They're a book from the early 1990s called "Tokyo Style" that is packed with photos of real living conditions from back then. Chaos of every variety. Plus some Super Famicom and PC-Engines laying around. A very cool book, most recently reprinted in 2024 with Japanese/English captions.
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