Mountains

Geneto designed some screens with graphic prints to divide up the spaces and hide storage in a small apartment in Tokyo. What I love is the story and functionality behind the graphics. From Archdaily, "While considering the design of the panels, we looked to a traditional Japanese architectural application called Fusuma. Fusuma is the art of decorating room dividing panels with scenes of nature to create the impression that one is living outdoors enveloped in nature...

We abstracted this concept and applied it to the dividing panels.The composition of lines draws inspiration from the silhouette of the surrounding mountains and from the city skyline – which has become our new nature...Yet the Fusama do not only provide emotional needs of the space but also the functional.



The carved lines are at once handles and crevices for coat hangers which would otherwise protrude from the panels and compromise the simplicity of the space."

At once a little art deco, modern - I can't quite know how to place it but it definitely is ingenious.