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2006.05.16

Paul Smith Space

I had quite a productive day yesterday, starting early in Harajuku, followed by an interview session for the METROPOLIS podcast (about a piece I’m writing for them), and then some more walking around Aoyama. Took plenty of pictures — including that new building in Harajuku I’ve been talking lots about — and I’ll put those up on Flickr over the week. Also, I recorded a new episode of the TOKYO BOY podcast, and I’ll try to edit and upload it as soon as possible. Also got some goodies, including a new Relax Boy for my collection, some nice new tees from Graniph, and an amazing stationery set from KOKUYO and Dainippon Type Organization — I’m so in love with it that I don’t even want to use it! More on everything in separate posts throughout the week.

Pictured here is a sign for the new Paul Smith Space shop in Aoyama, which occupies the same building as the old IDEE Sputnik store, across the street from Las Chicas.

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Responses:

  1. The Graniph people have some nice shirts there… and pretty cheap compared to the other design shirt shops out there. But their thing with (really really strange) German…

    06.05.18 2:49
    Posted by DocSnoek
  2. Yeah, since I can’t read German, I always wonder if what’s written on the shirts makes sense or not. It really turns me off how lots of Japanese-designed items/tees with French on them are often ridiculous, and don’t buy them based on that.

    06.05.18 13:11
    Posted by Jean Snow
  3. Most of the time it seems like they just scan some text from god knows where and put it through an OCR software. With the result of having some letters converted wrong and words making no sense at all. Also having the first line of the hymn of the former GDR (”Auferstanden aus Ruinen”) on a shirt is pretty weird.

    But if some people here knew, what the cool looking japanese characters on their shirts are saying…

    06.05.18 13:27
    Posted by DocSnoek
  4. “But if some people here knew, what the cool looking japanese characters on their shirts are saying…”

    Exactly, it goes both ways.

    06.05.18 13:29
    Posted by Jean Snow
  5. how is it the ‘infamous new building’ in the context of your previous post when all the discussion seemed so positive?

    06.05.19 0:19
    Posted by anon
  6. Sorry, that was a bad choice of words, I should change it in the post.

    06.05.19 1:35
    Posted by Jean Snow
  7. The building is really great. I cannot believe that all those pieces of glass are bolted and fastened enough to stand this load, especially those ones that are nearly parallel the earth!
    Impressed!
    Thank you for such photos

    06.05.19 23:09
    Posted by Kathy
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