Meetings Between Dutch and Japanese Designers and Architects Create LLOVE Hotel Tokyo
Geschreven op 25-10-2010 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Design
Dear Erik, I am very happy to invite you for the opening of the LLOVE hotel in Tokyo. Together with dutch designers Joep van Lieshout, Richard Hutten, Scholten & Baijings, Thonic and Japanese designers and architects Jo Nagasaka, Yuko Nagayama, Ryuji Nakamura, and Hideyuki Nakayama, we each designed a hotel room for the LLOVE hotel.
This wonderful and inspiring project has been initiated by Suzanne Oxenaar from the Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy in Amsterdam, the Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka and Bas Valckx from the Dutch Embassy in Japan. I have been guided here in Japan by Motohiro, from the design shop Cibone in the centre of Tokyo and will also have an exhibition there by the end of this month during Design Tokyo.
To make this project even more unique, I have taken the opportunity to work with craftsmen from Japan. Together with the first female glass-blower in Japan we have realized some beautiful new series of Light Blubs.
If you are around…
You are very welcome to come and experience LLOVE!
Looking forward to see you there! Best wishes, Pieke Bergmans
Thanks Pieke for the invitation and although i’m pretty close to Tokyo, staying in room 308 in my hotel in Thailand, it’s just a little bit to far to expierence LLOVE!
LLOVE, the exhibition where you can stay for the night. It is an exhibition, but you can stay for the night. You can choose whichever room you like and spend a night in luxury with a smile. Location: Daikanyama i Studio. Ebisu-nishi 1-36-10, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo(1 minute walk from Daikanyama Station). Period: till 23 November 2010.
Project Team: Organizers Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Nara Prefecture
Concept Director: Suzanne Oxenaar
Architectural Director: Jo Nagasaka
Supervision: Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy
Executive committee: Jo Nagasaka, Schemata Architecture Office – Yoko Shimada, Labo85 – Nobuyuki Fukui, Roovice – Florianne Eshuis, Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy – Renate Schepen, Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy
Designers: Meetings between Dutch and Japanese Designers and architects together create LLOVE.
Room: #308 in LLove ! by Pieke Bergmans
The design of the room in the Llove hotel, is about the emotion, the romance and compassion of love. The main object in the room will be light. Light is visible to the human but whether visible to the eye or not, a really interesting aspect of light is that we ‘feel’ light. This is because of the electromagnetic radiation of the wavelengths and also the temperature. In many legends sunsets or moonlight are an important and magical part of processes as it touches our emotions.
But it’s not just about the light in this room. You think you enter a regular hotel-room, but when you have a closer look, you see that the objects behave peculiar; The bed is crawling up the wall. The chair is desperately stretching out to get closer to the table.
The lights are entangled and the toothbrushes are totally into one and another. But what else would you expect from a Llove hotel… everything has fallen in LLove !
Light Blubs – De LED-Lampen van Pieke Bergmans ! – WONDERLAMP: 7 light objects by Studio Job & Pieke Bergmans –Liberation of Light by YKSI Expo: Tentoonstelling in het Designhuis Eindhoven – Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Cradle to Cradle Sculpturen by Atelier van Lieshout – Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Cradle to Cradle, een betere wereld van verspilling?
