Innovative works from all across the world will come together in 91 venues and 130 groups at this year’s Designart Tokyo festival. This Autumn, visitors will explore the city and experience cutting-edge creations in multiple venues in Tokyo, Japan.
Designart Tokyo is one of the biggest design and art festivals in Japan and takes place in Tokyo, one of the most multicultural cities in the world, and features a wide range of presentations in the fields of design, art, interior design, and fashion.
At this pivotal moment in history, the works collected under this year’s theme, Brave ‒ Pursuit of Instinctive Beauty, aim to achieve “instinctive beauty.”
During this event, guests can explore seven different exhibition spaces throughout Tokyo and, if they so choose, purchase items right there.
Under the theme “Into The Emotions,” this event serves as a catalyst for unexpected chemical reactions through encounters and inspiration with creators and their creations.
The Designart Tokyo 2025 will take place from Friday, October 31 to Sunday, November 9, 2025 in various venues of Tokyo.
The World Architecture Community is a media partner of the 2025 Designart Tokyo and will bringing to you the top designers, exhibitions, installations and news from the event.
Media Department Tokyo. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
Design Art Gallery
Media Department Tokyo is a dynamic cultural venue of the city’s landscape, situated in the center of Shibuya, that draws visitors from all over the world. Innovative works from Japan, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and other nations will be on display at this location as part of the Designart Gallery, a carefully curated group exhibition.
Here’s a selection of the list from the installations, artists, programs, and exhibitions that will be on display at Designart Tokyo this year:
ZEN. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
ZEN Solo Exhibition – Urban Equivalence
ZEN is regarded as an artist in addition to being a parkour athlete. At Designart Tokyo 2025, his most recent series, “Urban Equivalence,” will be on display. The 18 pieces, which include the event’s main visual, were created in Los Angeles following the Bangkok and Paris series. They will make their debut in Japan and be sold.
Other designers include LIXIL with “MUINIMULA: Reconceptualizing the Elements that Make Up a Space” and the architect Yuko Nagayama.
Official Exhibition / Designart Gallery
WOHLHUTTE (Yoshiyuki Horibe+Junko Horibe)+Satoshi Itasaka (Still Growing). Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
The official exhibition will house from experimental ideas to promising young talents. “+STORIES” is a collaboration project between OK-KASEI and four product designers that examines and builds a new future for plastic. It is an initiative between companies and designers.
WOHLHUTTE (Yoshiyuki Horibe+Junko Horibe)+ Satoshi Itasaka, in collaboration with Growth Ring, a lumber company in Miyazaki Prefecture, will display furniture created from wood that is more than a century old. This project challenges us to reconsider how we will use forests in the future.
U×N Architects / HIWADAYA (SORI). Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
U×N Architects (Shogo Urabe + Yo Nishijima + Genki Sato) and HIWADAYA will present SORI and kasane, products created using hiwadabuki, a traditional Japanese roofing technique.
SUPER RAT (HOUYOU: Asobi Uebu). Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
The lighting series “Uebu” will be unveiled by Tokio, a luxury modern furniture and lighting brand created by design firm Asobi. In the piece, light passes through brass and glass sculptures to gently illuminate the folded paper shapes, experimenting with reflection and shadow.
In the gallery, other designers include Asahi Seiki, M&T, siwaza, Takuya Shiotsuki of ZKI design, Paper Parade, Shinya Yamamoto, Yusuke Watanebe / WD, Sarah Tracton, Hononga Collective.
Swedish Style × Blå Station & ACTUS. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
The third floor will house internationally diverse projects and creators. In Japan, Swedish style started in Tokyo and is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary!
Swedish Style solidified Sweden’s place on the Japanese design map by showcasing modern Swedish fashion, design, music, food, business, and culture to influential industry audiences.
At Designart Tokyo, Swedish furniture brand Blå Station and Japanese lifestyle firm Actus celebrate their new relationship by showcasing a few pieces that will soon be available in Japan as part of the celebrations honoring their 25th anniversary.Through events at Sangenjaya House and exhibitions at locations outside of the main site, such as the Conran Shop, Azabudai Hills, Tokyo, and Time & Style Atmosphere in Omotesando, Designart Tokyo is working with “Swedish Style.”
Luis Marie (Touching Ground). Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
The Rotterdam-based design team Luis Marie emphasizes materiality, form, color, accuracy, and the force of fine detail while fusing traditional methods with modern design.
At the Designart Festival, Luis Marie exhibits his first show in Tokyo, “Touching Ground – Tokyo Edition,” after a very successful debut at Salone del Mobile 2025 in Milan.
In the third floor, other designers also include Roee Ben Yehuda, 1+1+1, Nomura Co., Ltd., Mathilde Bretillot, Aya Kawabata, Cuzen Matcha.
An exhibition spot that connects encounters and emotions / Tiers Gallery
HaKU Design Studio (Color Traces). Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
Four young artists’ works will be on display at the Tiers Gallery, a gallery for creators housed within the TIERS showroom at Arakawa & Co., Ltd.’s headquarters.
Product and CMF design experts Haruna Tako and Kohei Shirai, who form the design partnership HaKU Design Studio, will showcase their creations under the title “Ephemeral Echoes.”
This show will feature an installation of ongoing CMF research [Color Traces], which investigates traces of beauty that emerge when form, color, material, and texture meet, as well as [Oase], a small tray that softly embraces the changing moments of daily life.
Other designers include Kaining He, TOG (Saaya Harue + Kaito Hayashi), Tatsuro Shoji.
AXIS Building
VERCE / ©Takuya Shiotsuki. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
As a “medium to promote design and lifestyles,” Axis Building is well-known for its diverse design-related activities through Design Magazine Axis and Axis Gallery. It also keeps asking how design can have a meaningful impact on society. This location will host the five display groups this year.
VERCE “Discarded, Discovered” (JIDA Design Museum, 4F)
The architecture, art, and product design firm VERCE, founded by Toshitaka Ando and Takuya Shiotsuki, creates products that are repurposed from plastics, shattered stone, and leftover wood. Every material can be used alone or in combination with other materials, and thanks to modern technology, it can take on new shapes and meanings and appear in other combinations than before.
This is an effort to reconsider the definition of value rather than a repurposing exercise. The piece looks for a subtle beauty in items that just stand by highlighting unintentional shapes that are hidden in the materials and the traces of time they contain.
Bang & Olufsen, Beolab 90 Alchemy Edition. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
Bang & Olufsen Beolab 90 Alchemy Edition (3F Bang & Olufsen Roppongi)
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Bang & Olufsen, which was established in Struer, Denmark, in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen. The company has pushed the limits of innovation in audio-visual craftsmanship and acoustic quality.
Beolab 90 Alchemy Edition, which is limited to 50 pairs, is being introduced in this exhibition. created by the Atelier Bespoke team, with walnut wood accents, bronze mesh coverings, and a lot of 24-carat gold-plated components.
Other participants consist of siro, Yoshiki Matsuyama.
An exhibition spot that connects encounters and emotions / Tokyo Midtown
During the Tokyo Midtown Design Live 2025, three creative teams will exhibit works under the theme is “Shake, Switch-up, Activate”.
Forman+Ryoga Osada 1+1+1)=18」
This is an exhibition of upcycled furniture by Masato Senzaki of design studio Forman and interior designer Ryoga Osada. As furniture that can be reborn, the studio aimed to reconstruct the relationship between modern people and objects, increasing the points of contact such as touching, seeing, and moving, and becoming a part of everyday life.
Othe participants include KIYOSHI TOMIYAMA (KEMMUN), Sen.
Under the Zenigame Bridge overpass A・B
Yoshiaki Kanamori (JOKEI -scene (or memory). Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
Yoshiaki Kanamori (UNDER 30) JOKEI -scene (or memory)
The ordinary landscape of the city served as the inspiration for the piece JOKEI-scene (or memory). Each person’s everyday existence and personal history are inadvertently entwined with these commonplace cityscapes. The nighttime stroll home, the window stared absently, the uneven wall surface touched without conscious thought.
JOKEI-scene (or memory)- captures the slivers of landscape that silently lurk in the recesses of memory by meticulously replicating the subtle phenomena that arise from such settings.
TORQ DESIGN (UNDER 30) | Pyro PLA Project. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
The Pyro PLA Project, presented by TORQ Design (Atsuhito Suese, Rin Kawashima, and Yosuke Ito), melts and blends the layered traces to produce new textures by heating 3D-printed PLA surfaces over an open flame. Similar to pottery, the form is meticulously refined digitally before being flame-treated by hand, bringing the synthetic material closer to the world of traditional craft.
Other designers include Yusaku Yamaguchi, gekitetz Inc, Blue plywood.
An exhibition spot that connects encounters and emotions / SEIBU SHIBUYA A・B Bldg.
Kewai (Sense of Spring collection). Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
The Seibu Shibuya Store has consistently sought innovation since its founding, helping to turn Shibuya into a center of fresh and imaginative culture. More than 50 years have passed since the Seibu Shibuya Store first opened its doors in 1968. There will be several notable exhibitions at the Seibu Shibuya Store.
Kewai ¦ Sense of Spring collection
“Sense” is a vague awareness, a subtle sensation that permeates everything in our immediate environment. The firm name, Kewai, is derived from the traditional pronunciation of “kehai” (sense), “kewai.” The studio’s experience is enhanced by the subtle changes in our daily life, the soft change of the seasons, and the soft shift of nature, which calms and balances our hearts. The collection’s main motif is cherry blossoms, which are a classic representation of spring in Japan.
The delicate moment when the blossoms disperse in the breeze is captured by each petal, which is painstakingly hand-cut and made up of hundreds of pieces. The piece embodies wabi-sabi, a fundamental Japanese aesthetic sensibility that finds beauty in impermanence, through this fleeting beauty.
Kyowa-kogyo + Moriyuki Ochiai Architects ¦ Wire-Mesh Tea. Ceremony Room © Daisuke Shima
Kyowa-kogyo + Moriyuki Ochiai Architects ¦ Wire-Mesh Tea Ceremony Room
By using its scientific know-how to create diamond mesh with incredibly stiff, high-strength qualities, Kyowa Industries Co., Ltd. is the firm that consistently forms and offers new possibilities.
With the help of Moriyuki Ochiai Architects, they try to recreate the traditional layout of a tea room known as the “Wire-Mesh Tea Ceremony Room” using industrial diamond-shaped wire mesh. By allowing quiet and a vibrant visual experience to coexist, it seeks to create a spatial apparatus that has the capacity to unlock people’s creativity and sensibility.
Other participants include Cyuon + Moriyuki Ochiai Architects, T. Yamada, James Kaoru Bury, Ryuji Nakamura.
Discover the stories behind the works
NOMURA Co., Ltd. | CREDIT ‒ Fragments of Making. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
The exhibition CREDIT ‒ Fragments of Making by NOMURA Co., Ltd. invites viewers to rediscover beauty as something innate and profoundly human by illuminating the unseen labors and tales that go into craftsmanship. People hardly stop in our daily lives to think about the people who have shaped the things around us or how much effort, skill, and time have gone into their creation. Numerous artifacts, including early prototypes, abandoned parts, worn tools, and evidence of repetitive trial and error, can still be found inside factories and workshops.
Every piece has the imprint of its creator as well as the silent testament to creativity, perseverance, and judgment that culminate in a completed piece. Nomura illuminates those unseen storylines with this effort. The exhibition encourages viewers to reevaluate their selection criteria and adopt a fresh perspective by investigating and gathering fragments that arise from the process of production.
KOKUYO ¦ Pre-launch experience New-Concept Office Chair“ingCloud”. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
The innovative 3D Ultra Auto-Fit Mechanism of the “ingCloud” office chair improves worker comfort and focus while offering a whole new seated experience. An exclusive preview of “ingCloud” will take place at Think Of Things in Sendagaya prior to its formal introduction in the winter of 2025. A behind-the-scenes look at how this ground-breaking product was created will also be presented during the event, together with design prototypes and concept models.
Yohak Design Studio, Kokuyo’s in-house design collective and the driving force behind Think Of Things, is in charge of the space design.
Other participants include Lutron, hide k 1896, Seiko.
Interior / New products and special exhibitions by interior design brands
The STAGE by NII. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
The STAGE by NII
With the concept of “Ingenious design,” Itoki Corporation introduced its furniture brand “NII” in Japan in June of this year. This brand attracts a lot of attention because it turns the office into a visually appealing and lively stage. Itoki Design House Aoyama, which is set to open this autumn, will host the exhibition of NII’s debut collection, “The Stage by NII.”
Chiiil with Karimoku. Image © Jeff Burton
Chiiil with Karimoku
With the aim of proposing a comfortable living, Hitachi, Hitachi Global Life Solutions, and Karimoku Furniture collaborated to create the Chiiil with Karimoku project. Using Karimoku’s hardwood furniture and Hitachi’s little refrigerator “Chiiil,” this idea creates a warm texture that makes everyday life more comfortable.
The studio will display information based on the concept model that was introduced last year, adding fresh concepts, in addition to the “Chiiil MINIBAR,” which was released in July 2025.
Other creators include DAFT about DRAFT and Edra.
Art / Technology
Windows by Dumb Type. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
Windows by Dumb Type
This piece was produced by the progressive art collective Dumb Type, whose pieces from the International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, were displayed at the Artizon Museum in 2023. It provides a feeling of being connected to the outside world even when inside the building by combining and displaying a collection of publicly accessible live images from live cameras all around the world as if they were a single window.
The nontraditional viewpoint and change of perspective inspire businesspeople to alter their behavior and thinking. This is Dumb Type’s first public artwork.
A Lighthouse Called KANATA. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
A Lighthouse Called KANATA | Omotesando Exhibition “Opening Ceremony II”
This October, the group show Opening Ceremony II will mark the first public opening of A Lighthouse named Kanata’s new gallery space, which we moved from Nishi-Azabu to our own dedicated facility in Omotesando.
Other designers and brands include Philip Lumbang, The Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
A variety of exhibits will be held in Tokyo area aga in this year
FONTE – Atelier MATIC Sho Sotoyama. Image courtesy of Designart Tokyo 2025
FONTE – Atelier MATIC Sho Sotoyama
Based on the idea of the contrast between natural and man-made objects, Atelier Matic frequently produces pieces utilizing terrazzo and natural stone.
Held in Hakusuisha B1 Gallery in Nihonbashi Kabutocho, this exhibition will adopt a slightly different strategy from our previous shows, showcasing big lampshades that radiate gentle light and acrylic pieces with novel notions. The spatial presentation that is exclusive to Atelier matic, who also specialize in display and spatial design, is something we think you will look forward to.
In this venue, other designer is Yoshisuke Yamada.
Designart Tokyo Exhibition facts
Theme: Brave ‒ Pursuit of Instinctive Beauty
Event Period: 10 days from Friday 31 October to Sunday 9 November 2025.
Area: Omotesando, Gaienmae, Harajuku, Shibuya, Roppongi, Ginza, Tokyo station area
Organizer: Designart Tokyo Committee
Number of exhibits: 130 Groups / Venues: 91Venues
Founders: Akio Aoki (MIRU DESIGN), Shun Kawakami (artless Inc.), Hiroshi Koike (NON-GRID), Okisato Nagata (TIMELESS), Astrid Klein & Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture)
Top image in the article: ZEN Solo Exhibition – Urban Equivalence, courtesy of Designart Tokyo.
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