Above: Original Fake
Wonderwall is a Japanese design firm that was founded by Masamichi Katayama back in 2000. Specializing in cutting edge retail and commercial spaces, and most known for designing A Bathing Ape’s “BUSY WORK SHOPs” in Japan, London, New York, and Hong Kong, Wonderwall is changing the way some of the world’s most progressive retailers approach visual aesthetics, product merchandising and the customer shopping experience.
The company’s approach to design balances traditional architecture with boundary breaking conceptual ideas. Originality and never recycling elements of past projects - whether techniques in lighting, material selection, or spatial proportions - has landed Wonderwall hip A-list clients like UNIQLO, Original Fake, and Hysteric Glamour, among others.
Recently named the 2007 interior design firm of the year at the Great Indoors Awards, Katayama and the Wonderwall crew are on top of their game.
Above: Hysteric Glamour
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Word. Wonderwall is the KING of interior design. I’ve been following them since 2004 and their growth has been amazing. Their style is similar to Phillipe Starck’s in a way - melding old-world luxury with current materials and architecture. I personally think they’re more cutting edge though.
Katayama has a blog on honeyee which includes some links to some cool design stuff. Man, would I love to meet him.
Anyways, we should go for beers again!
Peace.