Upsetters Inc.

Long Slow Distance

Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi

LONG SLOW DISTANCE

Upsetter Architects

PHOTOGRAPHS
Yusuke Wakabayashi

AREA
33.4 m2

YERA
2011

LOCATION
Tokyo,Japan

CATEGORY
Showroom

Text description provided by architect.

This is a design of the store, which requires a visit by appointment, in an alley in Harajuku, Tokyo.

Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi

This space is intended to function as a sales agency, and as an authorised store of imported watches and a store selling related accessories.

Serving as both an agency and store, this project was designed as a space requiring an appointment to visit, providing customers with the opportunity to shop and talk about business with its clerk.

Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi

The layered mesh curtains provide both publicity and privacy: People can sense a clerk working in the store if they wish to and the clerk can enjoy the limited openness as well as the privacy.

The curtails also allow for flexible layouts within the store, each being installed in curtain rails at regular intervals.

Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi

Furthermore, the details of their pleats and edges, which were well considered, add a deeply elegant and masculine atmosphere to the interior.

In the carefully designed space with the layered mesh curtains, a large symbolic counter and sofa are placed, on which customers can enjoy shopping over a conversation with the clerk.

Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi


Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi


Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi
Long Slow Distance
© Yusuke Wakabayashi


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Upsetters Inc.
T +81 357 755775 F +81 3 57755776
Upsetters Inc.
2F, 3-54-4 Sendagaya, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo 151-0051, Japan