Japan 2003LVMH Osaka
A complex building comprising Louis Vuitton Japan Group’s boutiques and offices.Its first imagery was a ‘luminous box of stone’ placed amid the bustle of Midosuji street in Osaka. External walls consist of onyx plates from Pakistan sliced down to 4 mm thick and sandwiched between glass plates.
In order to provide outside views to office rooms, panels made of PET film sheet with onyx-like pattern print sandwiched between glass plates were mixed with onyx walls at a proportion of 2 to 1 respectively. This represents a search into the ambiguous domain between ‘stone’, the real, and ‘stone image’, the virtual. At the same time, it is a search into the ambiguous domain between two opposite items: the ‘wall’ and the ‘window’.
