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There are just so many beautiful things here.I like the way that regular items/buildings/foods seem to have been reduced to basics, then improved just a little to make them completely new.

I have seen these outline vases by Yuko Tokuda a few places now, and love the simplicity.

I can think of a few places they would look nice.

They are available at MoMA Store under Home Accessories.

Another inspiration for my dragging Patrick to Japan was the books by Yoshimoto Banana, Ishiguro Kazuo and Murakami Haruki. Each author seems to see the world from a slightly different angle than most, and creates amazing beauty from the dullest of situations.

I don’t seem to have absorbed any of this way of thought during my six months in Tokyo unfortunately.

We walked through the Omotesando Hills complex yesterday, I hadn’t been up that far previously, as usually the sight of all the pretty things I can’t afford slightly irritates me.

I was glad we bothered, as the building itself was striking. I was about to take some photos when I noticed the signs about the place prohibiting photography… You’ll just have to imagine it.

I noticed when I looked up the website to link to for this post that the complex was designed by Tadao Ando, the same architect who designed 21_21 Design Sight we visited recently for the Chocolate exhibition.

Again, Ando seems to see things from that perspective the rest of us don’t quite grasp.

I have decided I don’t mind at all that I am not creative, as long as all these others just keep on making pretty things for me to look at.

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