A sliding door connects a cozy library with adjacent kitchen space in a project in Japan. The library walls are tinted with ink to reflect shadows contrasting with the brighter white room next door, in a balance of yin and yang. The fireplace chimney is made in our Belgian workshops. Above the fireplace is a painting by Yuko Nasaka (Untitled, 1963), an avant-garde artist whose work strikes a balance between the industrialization realities and the purity of Japanese traditions. - - - Photo: @lazizhamani for Portraits of Interiors (Flammarion, 2019). - - - #axelvervoordt #axelvervoordtdesign #axelvervoordtcompany #yukonasaka #tokyodesign #tokyointerior