Turn off the lights.Take it slow.

Turn off your lights for two hours from 8 to 10 p.m. on the evening of June 21.
Do something special . . .Read a book with your child by candlelight. Enjoy a quiet dinner with a special person.This night can mean many things for many people.A time to save energy, to think about peace, to think about people in distant lands who share our planet.
Pulling the plug open the window to a new world.Awakens as to human freedom and diversity. It is a process of discovery about our potential.However you spend them, for just tow hours, join us.Turning off the lights, and help us spreada gentle wave of candlelight around the earth.
On the evening of June 21, from 8 to 10 p.m.Turn off the lights. Take it slow.



One Japanese University professor planned to organize an "unplugged" movement in Japan, together with some of his fellows. They named their initiative "Candle Night," hoping to involve as many as one million people. It was initiated on the summer solstice of June 2003.
"Candle Night" suggests spending some time in more natural light, away from everyday life and artificial lighting. It's not a movement intending to force people to turn off their lights or to raucously protest against anything.
While planning, the group discussed what the best dates would be to turn off the lights simultaneously across the country. They agreed it should not be a national holiday or anniversary that only a few countries would celebrate. It should be a day that all countries recognize, like the summer and winter solstices.
Responding to the call from key promoters of the Candle Night (the Candle Night Committee), governments and businesses started to support the movement. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment, a partner of Candle Night, started a nationwide "Lights Down" campaign on the summer solstice in June 2003. Major landmarks including the Clock Tower in Sapporo, the Tokyo Tower, castles, and corporate buildings, turned off their lights as part of the Lights Down campaign in support of Candle Night.
The Candle Night Committee and the Ministry of the Environment bring it to our attention. Many people agree to organize Candle Night and they would made some action and events regarding to this movement


YASUTA Veneered Surfaces & Design also makes the action distributing the "wood shade candle kit" among clients and local children in oder to promote this movement.

*Japanese　日本語訳

私たちは100万人のキャンドルナイトを呼びかけます。2008年の夏至の日、6月21日夜、8時から10時の2時間、みんなでいっせいにでんきを消しましょう。ロウソクのひかりで子どもに絵本を読んであげるのもいいでしょう。しずかに恋人と食事をするのもいいでしょう。ある人は省エネを、ある人は平和を、ある人は世界のいろいろな場所で生きる人びとのことを思いながら。プラグを抜くことは新たな世界の窓をひらくことです。それは人間の自由と多様性を思いおこすことであり、文明のもっと大きな可能性を発見するプロセスであると私たちは考えます。一人ひとりがそれぞれの考えを胸に、ただ2時間、でんきを消すことで、ゆるやかにつながって「くらやみのウェーブ」を地球上にひろげていきませんか。2008年、6月21日、夏至の日。よる8時から10時。でんきを消して、スローな夜を。100万人のキャンドルナイト。

この運動はある大学教授が電気を消す”アンプラグド”運動を彼の友人達と企画しました。彼らはそのイベントを”キャンドルナイト”と称し１００万人規模の運動にできることを目指し、２００３年度の夏至の日に実行したのが始まりでした。キャンドルナイトは電気を消すことで日常の生活を見つめなおす”ひととき”を過ごす事を提唱する運動です。といえども無理やりに消灯したり何かに反抗するための運動ではありません。彼らはこの企画の日を夏至の日に設定しました。なぜなら各国、各文化の記念日を祝うのではなく万国共通の夏至、冬至の日をキャンドルナイトの日と設定したのです。このムーブメントは政府や企業を巻き込み今やひとつの大きなイベントとして成長し東京タワーを始め各地観光スポットやオフィスビルもこの企画に賛同し、また多くのNPOやNGOを中心に各地でキャンドルナイトのイベントが開催されるようになりました。YASUTA VS+Dでも”樹あかり　キット”を顧客や地元の子ども達に配布し、この企画のプロモーションに参画しています。

Re-Discover. the Japanese modern

Hotel KAICHORO is newly featured as the excelsior hotel of the time-honored(over 400years) tradition hotel FUKUICHI which is located in Ikaho-Hot Springs area in Gunma prefecture Japan.
There the guests can stay in luxury in the quiet and sophisticated atmosphere with excellent meal, Spa-facility ,of course the warm hospitality of the hotel staffs.
The space design was considered under the concept of "和" (Japanese style )which is not typical tradition but it would build up one of the new style of interior scene recognized as the "Internationalized Japanese modern".

The architect Kakuo Matsumura(Kakuo Architect office,KYOTO Japan) is the leading person of Japanese modern architecture and he is energetically promoting it in his works.
The rooms is stage-designed with calm and peaceful atmosphere featuring verious Japanese wood well combined with the lighting effects. Even the atmosphere is surely based on Japanese sensibility which we feel so comfortable, but the style of interior is quite different from our old typical tradition of Japanese.That is the point which we even Japanese would be deeply impressed favorably with his this work.
Matsumura was born and spend most of his life in Kyoto the old metropolis where they still keep the old culture and architecture-style. With this situation and addition of his internationalized taste of idea have been created such a new "Internationalized - Japanese- modern".
You can not miss his strikingly original design works when you would visit to Japan!!

*Japanese　日本語訳

「諧暢楼」は４００年の歴史を持つ伊香保温泉の老舗ホテル「福一」の別館として新しく開業したホテルです。この宿では洗練された客室、スタッフの暖かいおもてなし、そして地産地消の食材を使った料理やスパ施設といったサービスも充実しており、静かで洗練されたラグジュアリーなひとときを過ごせる宿となっています。この宿のデザインのコンセプトは”インターナショナル　ジャパニーズモダン”。日本の個性美を押し付けるのではなく、世界に認められる美を日本式に表現するというこのデザインスタイルは京都在住の松村佳久男氏（カクオ　アーキテクト　オフィス）によって手がけられたました。日本の樹をふんだんに使い、ライティングで静かさと落ち着きを表現する各部屋は、とても快適で我々日本人にとっても印象深い雰囲気をかもしだしています。松村氏は古都、京都で生まれ育ち。磨きぬかれた日本文化に対するセンスを基に、国際感覚を融合させた彼は新しいジャパニーズモダンの先駆者として注目を浴び続けています。

Know What He Is Surfing !

In 1980,Shawn Stussy was a local cult surfboard shaper who took his scrawled signature logo from his foam masterpieces and applied it to T-shirts that he sold along with his boards around Laguna Beach,California. His clothing design was soon developed into the beach culture and it's modern aesthetic design was became a topic of professional musician in New York and London.

STUSSY clothing was inspired by such musicians which helped to shape the brand into an international streetwear label.

Now there are several STUSSY shops are developing around Japan and every interior design is strikingly origin.

The STUSSY YURAKUCHO (design and constructed by B.C.RECORDS Inc) features the Frassiono Olivato Veneer,and it's modern aesthetic design is something in common with the origin spirit of Mr.Stussy that he started drawing the picture on the pure white shaped surfboard.

Now another shop STUSSY SAPPORO will be open soon which would also feature the epoch-making veneer design. We would expect that STUSSY would engage the big interest not only to surfers, musicians, but also to interior designers.

*Japanese 日本語訳

１９８０年　カリフォルニア　ラグナビーチのサーフボード職人のShawn　Stussy氏は彼のサインをサーフボードとTシャツに書き込み販売したところ、彼のTシャツデザインはまたたくまにビーチで評判となり、そして直ぐにニューヨークやロンドンのプロミュージシャン達の話題にもなりました。この様にSTUSSYの服はこれら世界を駆け巡るミュージシャンが好んで着用したために世界的に有名なストリートウエアとして広がりを見せ、日本でも各地で専門店が登場することになりました。店舗デザインにおいても彼の精神が受け継がれ、独特のセンスでSTUSSYブランドのイメージを作り上げています。写真のSTUSSY　有楽町店では（B.C.RECORDS Inc　デザイン・施工)では、珍しい Frassiono Olivatoの突板を採用しており、”白いサーフボードにイニシャルを書き込む”という彼のスピリッツが現れているようにも感じられます。有楽町店以外の店舗でも個性豊かな突板が採用されており、今後STUSSYはサーファーやミュージシャンの愛好者に加え、インテリア好きにも目を離せない存在になると期待をしています。

reconsideration of medern design

no feeling of a struggle to create the amazing space,he always start to planning the design by drawing the sketch with his inspiration which comes from his memories play in the mountains or fields in his boyhood.
Japanese Interior Designer Hiroki Michishita, he always adopt the elements and sensitivity of Mother nature into his design works instinctively.
Leaves,Trees,Flowers,birds,Insects.......every natural resources show it's characteristic expression and design,their beauty is made with the long term of removal of excess and only the retention of the necessary.
The grains of wood ,patterns of active fault, such textures are impressive never made by human technology. The smell of air,sound of small river, wind blowing.....those elements are also the important resources to feel us the peaceful time.
He is surely good at fitting those kind of natural sensitivity to make the modern space design. That might be the reason why his designed works never grow us tired and keep us comfortable for a long time.




Japanese Restaurant SUGAHARA is located in city of Osaka.
This project is also full of Michishita's sensitivity.The facade is look like a cumulonimbus cloud and the stairs seems leading us to go up to the Heaven.

Climb up the entrance stairs and once step into the inside of the restaurant,the space is well produced with the warmly comfortable atmosphere with woods,stones and greens which makes us to forget the noise of outside street.

The unique wooden lattice doors well produce the atmosphere of tipical Japanese house. In this case, due to the strict regulation of fire flammability that he could not use the thick solid wood., Instead, he adopt the 3 plyed veneer with the inflammable paper inside,and and of course the edge is covered with same veneer which looks like net with real solid wood.
Wall panels and furniture is also made with same "Java" veneer which produce the atmosphere,not strongly Japanese, but modern.

So many new designed projects appear in nowadays,and we trend to be inflexible that the design must be very impressive and amazing one. But sometimes, those flamboyant design would be disappeard soon with tiresomeness.

However Michishita's design work never strongly force the strong impression on us, but it just feel us comfortable. He is surely the designer who recognize what "design" must work for.

*Japanese 日本語訳

子どものころに野山で遊びながら見ていた景色や体で覚えた感覚をもとにスケッチのドローイングを始める。
日本を代表するインテリアデザイナー　道下浩樹氏は自然界にあるデザインの要素や感性を本能的にそのデザインワークに取り入れている。葉、樹、石、花、鳥、虫・・・全ての自然界を構成する物質には長年に渡り無駄を取り除いてきた合理的な形が存在し、まさにそれは究極のデザインであり、樹の杢理、活断層の模様・・・それらのテクスチャーは決して人間がそのテクノロジーを持っても表現できない不思議な力を持ち、また大気の香りや、小川が流れる音、土の匂い・・・は人々に安らぎを与える大切な要素であると彼は語る。彼はこのような自然界における要素を空間デザインに取り入れているのであろう。彼の携わったプロジェクトは斬新ながらも快適で飽きのこない、そして何故か懐かしさをかんじさせられるものが多い。
大阪郊外の日本料理店”すがはら”は、道下氏らしいセンスが伺われる。入道雲のようなファザード、そして天へ導いてくれるような階段が出迎える。店内に足を踏み入れるとそこは樹や石、緑をふんだんに使った暖かい空間が広がり、繁華街の雑音を忘れさせるようだ。
木を編みこんだ個性あふれる建具は、個室の内と外を微妙な関係で繋ぐデザインであり、壁面と同様"Java"の突板で装飾されている。和の雰囲気を持ちつつもモダンな雰囲気を作る樹種だ。無垢感を大切にする道下氏ではあるが、不燃等の内装制限や意匠デザインの関係で突板も多く採用している。この建具も不燃処理された突板パネルに小口装飾を施し、無垢調に仕上げている。
最近、斬新で強いインパクトを持つデザインが目立つ中、直ぐに飽きられしまうデザインも少なくない。しかしながら道下氏が手がける自然の摂理を基としたデザインワークは、斬新でありつつも、飽きの来ない、いつまでも心地よさを持ち続ける現場が多い。デザインは誰の為にあるのか？彼はそのことを良く理解しているデザイナーなのであろう。

On a street corner

Yoshihiko Mamiya(INFIX Design Inc,).the leading interior designer who always grasp the trend and making the new epoch in Japanese Interior design scene. His designed spaces are the category of its own and always give out the peculiar atmosphere not only in the space its own but also in the periphery around it. The shops or restaurants he designed always become to be recognized as the landmark and the cultural symbol of its town, and always the new prosper street would appeared after it. It's is because his design work is not only be strongly original one,but also he is gifted with intuitively talent to find out the potential energy of its street and he well reflect it to his design work.

The French-Japanese restaurant HIGASHI designed by Mr.Mamiya is located in the office street of mid-Osaka city.The street was once only a boring forest of old business offices,but after the HIGASHI restaurant have opened, the street became much enlivened with many of new shops and new visitors,and everyone recognized the restaurant as the landmark of its town.

In constant to the conservative-like facade which is acclimated to the office street, inside is well decollated in modern like art-deco style. Especially the unique pendant lights,the curved American Cherry veneered wall,the chic lightings.....any items are produced to make a reproduction of modernism in Japanese 1970's with Mr.Mamiya's contemporary sensibility is well combined. However, that interior makes us dear the old good days,but we never recognized it as an old-fashioned. Actually this is the Magic of Mr.Mamiya's design works, and that the reason why HIGASHI move both heart of old ages who know the good old days and young ages who are interesting to the newness.

883 takes you everywhere you want!

"No.883".
This number makes motorbike riders so exciting.
"833" can be recognized as the famous model of Harley Davidson Motorbike. Many riders are dreaming to ride it and feel the sound of it's special vibration of this 883- V2 engine.

The small bar named "Stand No.883" is open in KOBE Japan. The Harley's V-2 "883 engine is displayed in the facade window of the entrance and you can see the view of inside overlapping with it. The Inside,the long counter made with Evano Macassar veneer is set straightened from the 883 engine. It is really seems like the highway road for run!

This bar is designed and produced by Japanese Architectural Designer Hiroyuki Saeki (MOUSETRAP Co,.Ltd). According to the request from the client who loves the Harley Davidson Motorbike, he decided to display this 883"engine in the facade of the bar. The lighting effect is well considered to show up the items and it helps making the calm atmosphere for bar space.Particularly, the height of the long counter is set into 883mm high which is little bit lower than the standard height ,but this eccentric idea develop the good relationship and easy communication between the bartender and guests.

With those unique design work under Mr.Saeki, the bar have strong character and be crowded with the guest every night.The guest must be so satisfied with this good atmosphere which must be so comfortable like they are charmed with the sounds of Harley Davidson engine!

White sapwood fly with Bride

The Wedding.
Whether you have been dreaming of it since age four or have yet to give it much thought, seeing yourself in a wedding dress for the first time can be a wonderfully disarming moment.

Japanese Interior Designer Michio Anazawa (Design applet) designed and produced the Bridal Salon in THE BRIGHT GARDEN MATSUMOTO in Nagano Japan. The salon is shown well elegantly with high scene furniture and displays.
Mr. Anazawa chosen the Perparosa and Macassa-Rose veneers for the material of wall-decollating and furniture. Especially the Perparosa (quarter sliced)veneer was delivered to the wall-panel spliced with random-match including the white sap. Particularly it's white sap shows the characteristic and beautiful white-line add to it's own warmly light-brown texture. It look like the Angel Wings are flying! And this beautiful veneered-made texture also works well to make the white wedding dresses stand out.


Many dreaming ladies and girls would visit this Bridal Salon and once they would come into this space, their bridal dreaming must fly higher with the White Feather of Perparosa!!