LAYOUT AND FURNISHING

When you step into the head office’s large reception area, you are met by the essence of minimalism. The rectangular room is filled with natural light, and divided into three sections. The middle section has a lowered ceiling. From this part of the room, an elegant white spiral staircase rises to the first floor of the building.

The reception has maple parquet flooring throughout, all the ceilings are painted white, and the longitudinal walls have a raw concrete surface with visible board marks from the formwork. The pale hues and structure have been carefully combined as the perfect backdrop for the furniture and art in the room—chosen by Akasaka Yoshiaki — which attracts all the attention.

Hans J. Wegner’s three-seater black full grain leather sofa with a stainless steel frame and the matching coffee table have been placed on a shimmering blue and gray rug designed by Akasaka Yoshiaki and made by artist and professor at Tama Art University, Tadashi Takahashi. The oil painting above the sofa, by Susumu Endo, uses the same color palette as the rug and furniture and beautifully completes the whole.

WASEDA UNIVERSITY AKASAKA YOSHIAKI LABORATORY ABOUT THE CHOICE OF FURNITURE:

’’We have used various themes in the interior of the headquarters of Audio Thechnica and one of them was ‘Scandinavia’. Furniture created by Wegner is an obvious choice, as it is not too decorative and indeed very well designed. In the lounge area on the first floor the combination of CH88 and CH338 work very well. Among the many advantages of round tables is that the lack of corners make them easy to place.’’

Go to product page CH88:

Go to product page CH388:

Go to product page CH103:

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Photographers: Audio-Technica, Kenta Hasegawa (Interior) and Taisuke Ogawa (Exterior)