B3 Designers

Japanese designers Inly Design have designed a combined bakery, dried food store and cafe in Osaka, Japan. “Konjaku-an” cooks and bakes with the ingredients and the wisdom from Japanese ancient times in order to preserve the traditional techniques and recipes and to transfer them into modern times.

The interior manages to let “the old” and “the new” coexist by combining, for example, an old footing board, a worn-out farm implement, an antique table and a bamboo colander with a partition created by recycled hula-hoop rings and a “lighting umbrella” – i.e. multiple lamps that hang from the ceiling on cables, all originating from a central light fitting.