About Us
KIGENZEN serves as a bridge connecting cultures.
A space where you can indulge in timeless aesthetics –
where delightful individuals continue to share stories.
The brand continuously enhances its value while staying true to its essence.
Appreciate and inherit the charm of past treasures with a contemporary sensibility.
KIGENZEN is an atelier that curates art, design, inspiring books, antiques, furniture and all the valuables that resonate with our aesthetics.
House of Oda
into the Future
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KIGENZEN will formally inherit the Hokkaido house of Noritsugu Oda, Japan’s foremost chair researcher, who lived there for 23 years.
This space—where iconic Nordic furniture, folk crafts from Africa and Asia, antiques, and everyday tools quietly coexist—is more than a collection. It embodies a philosophy of life shaped through living with design.
We are envisioning this residence as a “living museum” — a place where design, life, land, and philosophy quietly converge, and whose resonance may one day be shared with others.
Starting in autumn 2025, we plan to gradually begin full-scale activities to shape how this place might speak to the future.
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POUL KJÆRHOLM
共鳴する日本の美意識
This book that explores how the work of Poul Kjærholm, a designer emblematic of Nordic modernism, resonates with Japanese aesthetics. Through a close reading of structure, materials, and spatial sensibility, KIGENZEN offers a unique perspective on the subtle dialogue between his designs and Japanese culture.
The foreword features contributions by Kjærholm’s son, Thomas Kjærholm, and daughter, Christine Kjærholm, who reflect on their family’s enduring affinity with Japanese design and cultural values.
The book includes newly commissioned photography by Takeshi Yabuki, alongside never-before-published archival images of the Kjærholm family. Edited by Yoshitaka Haba (BACH) and designed by Yuri Suyama, the volume is a carefully crafted meditation on design philosophy and aesthetic harmony.
