『ハルカの光』は、2021年2月8日〜3月8日までNHK Eテレで放送されたテレビドラマ。名作照明の虜となった女性・ハルカの物語。

居心地のいい部屋というと、オシャレな部屋をイメージする人は少なくないのかも知れませんが、オシャレなお店やファッションも、時間と共にだんだん普通になってしまうように、オシャレなだけではファッションもインテリアもすぐに飽きてしまいます。それでは居心地のいい部屋とはどんな部屋でしょう。

ニューヨークや東京の例でも共通しているのは、新しい文化が生まれるのは都心部から少し外れた場所です。1980年代のSOHO、2000年代のブルックリンは元々倉庫街で、人が集まる街に近い割に家賃が安く、クリエイターやアーティストらが小さなオフィスやアトリエを構えたりするのにちょうど良かったそうです。東京でも1980年代の代官山や、1990年代の裏原宿、その後の中目黒辺りは、少し似たような状況だったと思います。当初は大資本のチェーン店ではなく、個人経営の個性的な店舗ばかりです。いずれもそれらの人々を中心に新しいコミュニティができ、そこからさまざまな文化が生まれていきました。80〜90年代のジュリアーニ市長時代に、タイムズスクエア周辺が再開発され、タイムズスクエアの７Avあたりにあった風俗産業地帯が根こそぎ一掃。後に残ったのはスターバックス、マクドナルドなどの大型チェーン店ばかりで、人気のダイナーや小規模のカフェも無くなり、観光客向けの店だけが残った。

Memphis Milano is a multinational group of designers formed in 1981 and influenced design and architecture around the world, mainly in Italy, in the early 1980s. It also dominates the world as a representative of postmodern design. The central figure of the group is Italian architect and industrial designer Ettre Sotsas.

Japanese interior designers are increasingly drawn to European vintage furniture, blending mid-century modernism and postwar French design with the principles of Japanese minimalism and craftsmanship. This cross-cultural dialogue gives rise to interiors that are timelessly functional and deeply connected to both history and nature.

At the beginning of September, we went to Fukuoka with a double intention: to explore the originality of local modern architecture and to...

Originally, the biggest attraction of renovation apartments is that they can create unique floor plans and interiors that are not in existing apartments. While existing apartments have become standard specifications that are accepted by everyone, considering the price and ease of sale, renovation will solve the problem for those who are not satisfied with it.

In recent years, there are several apartments called vintage apartments, mainly in high-class residential areas in Tokyo. Many celebrities such as Kawaguchi Apartment (1964), a representative work of the founding period of luxury condominiums, Daikanyama Mansion (1971), Hiroo Garden Hills (1987), etc., have lived here, and more than decades have passed since the completion.

A long time ago, a dealer dealing with vintage furniture in New York, USA, said, "New York prefers old furniture, while California prefers restored furniture like new. That's why I've read an article called California Finish. I thought it was an interesting story, but even in Japanese vintage furniture stores, many of them are properly restored and sold, but perhaps it is influenced by the culture of the west coast of the United States.

Apartment renovation does not necessarily increase the value of assets. Proper renovation may maintain and improve the asset value, but renovations that strongly reflect the hobbies and personality of the residents, or the renovation of cheap materials and equipment, on the contrary, may reduce the asset value.

Have you ever thought about what you work for in the first place? Don't you work without thinking about anything just because it's normal to work? The meaning of working and what do you work for? If you don't know that, you don't know what kind of job to choose or what kind of job suits you. In order to do that, don't you need to know yourself first? What do you like and what do you hate? What are you good at and what are you not good at?

When it comes to lighting, most people are looking for pendant lights, but in fact, there are few places other than dining tables that need pendant lights. In the case of Japan, there is a strong image of ceiling lights and pendant lights in Japanese-style rooms attached to the ceiling at home, etc., and there is a fixed concept that lighting is attached to the ceiling.

There are many lighting with good designs at any time, but there are only a limited number of things that can really be called masterpieces. While the definition of good design is different for everyone, the title of masterpiece can only be given to those who are recognized by themselves and others.

Many people consider installing stylish pendant lamps on their living room ceilings, but the living room is the place in the home where we relax the most. After a long day of work, when you’re ready to unwind and think, “Time to relax in the living room!” ceiling lights that evenly spread light throughout the room may not create the uplifting or cozy atmosphere you’re hoping for.

There may be no other country that is as sensitive to trends as Japan. If you compare it with Westerners, you can see how sensitive Japanese people are to trends from their fashion, culture, and nationality. Louis Vuitton is a world-famous brand, but while such brands are aimed at a small number of wealthy people in Europe and the United States, there is data that nearly 60% of Louis Vuitton's sales were Japanese in the past, so that Japanese people also I love it.

Winter in Northern Europe is very cold, and it's finally getting brighter around 9 o'clock in the morning, but it's already dark outside at 15 o'clock. On top of that, it's cold to death outside.... How did such a harsh environment affect the people of the Nordic countries? Their lifestyle, which spends a lot of time indoors, is thought to have inevitably given birth to the wisdom of life and the awareness of interiors of "how to make the room a comfortable and cozy space".

It was also covered in the previous column "The Close Relationship between Fashion and Interior" (https://www.inthelightinteriors.com/post/epsode_44/), but based on a certain data The annual cost of Japanese interiors calculated in is only about 15,000 yen. While the amount spent on fashion is 90,000 yen a year, I think it is a number that shows how much Japanese people are not interested in interiors.

The fixed concept of "lighting is attached to the ceiling" is ruining the moment of the night. It may sound like too much to say that, but I would like to think about why the lighting should be on the ceiling in the first place.

I don't deny living in a fashionable house, but it's a little doubtful whether living in a fashionable house and posting on SNS really enriches life. The interior is equal to preparing your inner side. People who ignore others just because they can't see them are probably people who only care about appearance, and even if it's a nice interior, things made to show others are not attractive at all.

I feel like many people are attracted to things, have their favorite things, and think that living surrounded by them is rich. Certainly, everyone will want to be surrounded by their favorite things at least once. However, you should have actually got your favorite thing through the store or the Internet, but when you finally put it together, you will not be as impressed as you imagined.

As I wrote in "The Close Relationship between Fashion and Interior" before, despite the fact that the taste is very similar, it is an interior that is easy to be ignored due to the difference between the outside and the inside, but for styling and coordination There are many common parts.

The word "dark" is an expression that is always used when talking about lighting. Even in Junichiro Tanizaki's famous book "In the Darkness Praise", "In the dark..." As there is such an expression, the expression "dark" appears very often as a contrast to brightness.

"It's better to have it than not to have it." It's a word I've heard a lot so far. Work, money, food... In the era when there were no such things, the idea that "it's better to have than nothing" was common. I think that the trend of the word minimalism in recent years has spread the idea of "it's better not to have unnecessary things" that is different from before. I think there is aversion to having more things and money than necessary.

It is common for lighting to be on the ceiling, but when I think about a lighting plan, I am aware of how low the lighting is. If anything, I think the lower the light, the better. Speaking of the most ancient lights, I think it will be a bonfire. In the Heian period, it was called a "lighthouse", and a small plate was filled with oil and put on a pedestal to light a fire, and in the Edo period, "light" spread with paper around the plate where the fire was lit to protec