{"id":251606,"date":"2025-10-30T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251606\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:03:13","slug":"capsule-plaza-launches-first-international-edition-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251606\/","title":{"rendered":"Capsule Plaza launches first international edition in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian design fair Capsule Plaza is expanding internationally with Capsule Plaza Tokyo<\/a>, which will “celebrate Tokyo<\/a> as the ultimate destination for design lovers” during the Designart Tokyo<\/a> design week.<\/p>\n

The event<\/a> will take place at six venues across the city, including furniture brand Karimoku<\/a>‘s showroom and the T House New Balance concept store designed by architect Jo Nagasaka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AlessioFounder Alessio Ascari is bringing Capsule Plaza to Tokyo<\/p>\n

Capsule Plaza, which is run by the Capsule<\/a> design platform and magazine, chose Tokyo for its first international event because of the ubiquity of good design in Japan. The publication also takes its name from a Japanese icon, the Nakagin Capsule Tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“When we decided that, after three successful editions in Milan, it was time for the Capsule Plaza format to travel to other cities, it felt like a great opportunity to celebrate Tokyo as the ultimate destination for design lovers,” Capsule Plaza founder Alessio Ascari told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorThe Skwat Kameari Art Centre (above and main image) is one of the venues<\/p>\n

“In recent years, Tokyo’s creative community has flourished, and the city’s design and art week \u2013 that Capsule Plaza is timed to coincide with \u2013 is on the rise,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It felt like the right moment to bring the notion of “radical design for today” to Japan’s capital, igniting new and unexpected dialogues.”<\/p>\n

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The event will be different from Capsule Plaza’s Milan edition, which traditionally takes place during Milan design week<\/a> at its Spazio Maiocchi headquarters, where the platform invites global brands to showcase their work as part of one big exhibition.<\/p>\n

“Milan design week is an unparalleled global summit \u2013 nothing matches its scale and ambition,” Ascari said. “For Capsule Plaza, that translates into a unique opportunity of working with a wide variety of companies from all over the world.”<\/p>\n

“In Tokyo, on the other hand, the focus on the furniture industry and brand partnerships is subtler; we’re prioritising collaborations with design and architecture studios.”<\/p>\n

\"KarimokuKarimoku Commons’s showroom is taking part in Capsule Plaza Tokyo<\/p>\n

The Tokyo event will “feel more like a city-wide festival, celebrating Tokyo’s many creative facets”, he added.<\/p>\n

It will be held at galleries StandBy and Skwat Kameari Art Centre, the Karimoku Commons Tokyo showroom, design stores T House New Balance and Cibone, and restaurant Tokyo Burnside.<\/p>\n

\"StandThe Stand By gallery spaces will show works during the event<\/p>\n

While Capsule currently doesn’t have any firm expansion plans, the platform hopes to bring its events to more cities in the future.<\/p>\n

“We’d love to bring Capsule Plaza to the United States in 2026,” Ascari said.<\/p>\n

“With each new edition \u2013 while always intended as a hybrid between a fair and a collective exhibition \u2013 we imagine the format evolving. We will constantly adapt to the unique fabric of each city and market, fostering dialogue with the visionary creators shaping local cultural scenes.”<\/p>\n

The photography is courtesy of Capsule Plaza.<\/p>\n

Capsule Plaza Tokyo<\/a> takes place across Tokyo from 30 October to 9 November during Designart Tokyo<\/a>. See Dezeen Events Guide<\/a> for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian design fair Capsule Plaza is expanding internationally with Capsule Plaza Tokyo, which will “celebrate Tokyo as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[61914,449,458,459,64,63,460,149146,134,941,61745,62006,61747,11804],"class_list":{"0":"post-251606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture-and-design-events","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-designart-tokyo","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-sectionall","19":"tag-sectiondesign","20":"tag-sectionnews","21":"tag-tokyo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}