Mono Japan in Amsterdam

MONO JAPAN is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft and design. It is an event and a platform devoted to sophisticated beauty grounded in tradition. Okay! We, Mimi Berlin Blogger Team, went to this Japanese event for the first time ever.

Teatowels x Mono Japan

Bonne Suits x Mono Japan

Woth Magazine presenting the Japan issue

Sweet Hirado Room

Yamma Bags

Yamma Sangyo

Harappa clothes

Kyo-to-to mushroom tabi socks

Kyo-to-to Patches

Shimpei Arima, Sugicodama cedarwood

Shimpei Arima, Sugicodama cedarwood.

Connecting the Dots/Saga Arts

In Praise of Shadows room

view from the 6th floor at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam

Studio Chikufusha/Beppe Bamboo

All Participants to Mono Japan-Amsterdam

Sugicodama

We were stunned by so much traditional arts & crafts in one building. You must know; we have a complete different image of Japan in our minds: the colorful and tech-forward Japan. But we did spent a long time stroking the ‘Sugicodama’ cedarwood sculptures by Shimpei Arima; they were amazingly soft to the touch!

Mono Japan can be visited through February 19, 2018 at the Lloyd hotel & cultural embassy, Oostelijke Handelskade 34 in Amsterdam.