Oita Soho Modern Japanese Restaurant

Interior Design Award Winner.
Awarded for Good Interior Space and Exhibition Design.

Oita Soho Modern Japanese Restaurant
by Mika Kanayama

Awarded April 15, 2024
CLIENT: Muzo
6.841

Oita Soho was designed to create a sophisticated, relaxing space with Japanese influences and carrying some of the identity established in Oita’s first restaurant, informal and verdant with plants throughout. The space required more than the conventional approaches of minimalistic modern Japanese design to deliver a distinct, remarkable experience that is a synthesis of aesthetic and cultural elements. The work was inspired by the Tanizaki essay "In Praise of Shadows" which discusses the use, meaning and aesthetics of darkness and shadows in Japanese art, design and architecture.

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