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This Friday

Weekend Market by マルシェ・ドゥ・グルニエ 

A great way to spend some time checking out local made craft foods, beverages and products.

When:
April 22 (Fri) 15:00 to 22:00 / 23 (Sat) 11: 00 ~ 19:00 / 24 (Sun) 11:00 to 18:00

Where:
" Plantation " (Kikusui 8-jo 2-chome 1-32, Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo) Free admission

A Milanese shopping icon

Former fashion editor and publisher Carla Sozzani conceived 10 Corso Como from an old warehouse in 1991 as a virtual narrative. Using the gallery and book shop as its core, Sozzani has structured a living magazine where editorial choices in food and fashion, music and art and lifestyle and design are constantly made by the visitor and customer as they engage across so many arenas of interest. 10 Corso Como promotes slow shopping through a succession of spaces and events that reflect lifestyle over object acquisition.   is a fashionable shopping and dining complex that  combines outlets that show and sell works of art, fashion, music, design, cuisine and culture. It is mainly a café and a restaurants , but it also includes an art gallery, a bookshop, a design and fashion store and a Roof Garden

Brera Design District, Milan Design Week

Brera Design District is Italy’s most important district for the promotion of design, an international point of reference and a centre of Milan’s creative, commercial and cultural development.

“Brera Design District contributes to enriching and enlivening the whole programme of city events that take place during the Salone del Mobile, placing the city of Milan in the international spotlight and attracting large numbers of visitors from all over the world.”
Cristina Tajani
Councillor for Culture, fashion and design
Comune di Milano

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The Restaurant by Caesarstone and Tom Dixon opens in Milan's Rotonda della Besana church

British designer Tom Dixon has created a series of experimental kitchens using solid-surface material Caesarstone inside a deconsecrated 17th century church in Milan.

The Restaurant installation consists of four Tom Dixon-designed kitchens and dining areas, decorated with a range of the designer's new and old products, inside the Rotonda della Besana church. Products from Dixon's new Materiality range, including a geometric light named Curve and teardrop-shaped lamps called Fade, are also being shown for the first time as part of the installation.

Weekend Affair | Le Musée

Run by owner and head chef, Sapporo native Makoto Ishii, Le Musée（ル・ミュゼ） is at the cutting edge of a new style of Japanese cooking where a traditional, minimal approach is fused with innovative ways of cooking to express each seasonal ingredient.

Located in the quaint Miyanomori neighbourhood, Le Musée offers artistic culinary delights using Hokkaido’s bountiful ingredients. Its uniqueness was acknowledged when the restaurant earned a star in Michelin’s special edition guide on Hokkaido.

As of April 2014, the restaurant initiated “Le Musée x Art Project” まちなかアート・プロジェクトcollaborating with contemporary artists in Hokkaido. In addition to holding special restaurant exhibitions that change according to the four seasons, special limited collaboration menus are also offered.

photos : LE MUSÉE

beauty in the bizarre

Hokkaido Artist Profile

Born in 1946, Shin Taga is a self taught award winning artist, and one of the very finest draftsman renowned for his detailed and surreal copper etchings. With numerous exhibitions around the world since the 1970s, Shin's work is well sought after by independent galleries with a cult following in Berlin and Stockholm.

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Weekend Wander | D&Department Hokkaido by 3KG

Located near the center of Sapporo, D&DEPARTMENT HOKKAIDO by 3KG is a select shop, long loved by the locals, which introduces affordable sundries and furniture from the perspective of “long life”. It is characterised by its focus on traditional crafts and local industries. “Made in Hokkaido” products, selected from areas such as Sapporo, Asahikawa, Otaru, Hakodate, are recommended as souvenirs. Wooden crockeries etc., from the Takahashi Carpentry Workshop in Asahikawa are used in the adjoining café “pippin”, so you can enjoy the taste of cuisine made with Hokkaido ingredients and delicious coffee, served in Hokkaido bowls and cups.

d-department.com/jp/shop/hokkaido

Sou Fujimoto Architects Fractures Plans and Sections While Bringing Together People in Date, Hokkaido

From the architect. This is the treatment center for mentally disturbed children where they live together to get regaining their mental health. It may be thought that it is a very special building when I write so, but it is truly rich life space that requested in origin like a large house and also like a small city, the intimacy of a house and also the variety of the city. This is a proposal of a loose method.

Sou Fujimoto Architects 

ArchDaily

Kentaro Nakanishi : Raus Kelp, Fishermen, Families and Dogs in Hokkaido

Japanese people make broth from dried kelp. The soup contains umami or glutamine acid, which makes Japanese food distinctive and palatable. And it is Raus kelp that makes the best soup in all kinds of Japanese broth. But few consumers know about its producers who live on the seaside in Raus, a town in the Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido.

Kentaro Nakanishi , a Japanese photographer, managed to document their life. His remarkable work provides a new way to see the popular northern island. Mr Nakanishi’s photos were shot from a worker’s point of view and tells how fishermen and their families live every day in the far corner of the earth with his focus on the human relationship.

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photos: Kentaro Nakanishi

Happiness is... A 24-hour takeout sandwich shop!

Sandria is a takeout-only sandwich shop that opened in 1978. They insist on using Hokkaido-produced ingredients, and the sandwiches are filled with ingredients prepared according to recipes dating back to the shop’s inception. People keep on coming back for the fresh, reasonably-priced sandwiches. It is close to Susukino and conveniently open 24-hours a day, 7 days a week! They sell 40 different kinds of sandwiches at any one time, and the most popular is the double-egg sandwich. Their sandwich hors d’oeuvres (reservations required at least 3 days in advance) are popular for events such as birthday parties.

s-sandwich.com
Minami 8-jo Nishi 9-chome 758-14, Chuo-ku, Sapporo

Spatial and Social Consciousness at Kyodogakusha Shintoku Farm

Designed by Hokkaido-based Kawahito Architects, Karinpani Hall is the latest addition to Kyodogakusha Shintoku Farm, a non-profit “social firm” that supports the employment of disabled and otherwise disadvantaged individuals. Surrounded by the Hidaka Mountains to the west, the Taisetsu range to the north, and Tokachi Plain to the south, Karinpani Hall was designed not simply as a functional facility, but rather to encourage community interaction and integration with nature.

The purpose of this structure is to provide a place where both farm residents and others with an interest in community welfare, agro-tourism, and the revitalization of the dairy industry can gather for a wide range of meetings, workshops, and classes. The wide "edge" serves to weave the changing season into the space, and is a place for many different activities.

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photos: Hiroshi Kawahito

March

When the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it's summer in the light and winter in the shade.

The flip side on retail therapy

If you are looking for crockery, accessories, bags and other sundries made by local artisans in Sapporo, check out “space1-15”. The facility is an old, hidden-away apartment with only a hand-made floor guide board at the entrance. From the second to the fifth floor are unique shops renovated from 1DK rooms, offering goods you won’t find elsewhere. The stores are also workshops so you can see how the products are made directly or have a chat with the artisans.

space1-15.com