The office design for A lighthouse called Kanata, a gallery that presents contemporary art with a focus on Japanese artists. They pursue a purity of beauty free from any noise. Their unwavering trust in their own sensibilities and the worlds they create became a guiding presence in shaping this space.

At first glance, the office appears to be filled with immaculate white. Yet as one approaches and touches the surfaces, a quiet plaster texture begins to emerge. Within this clean white, subtle shadows reveal themselves only upon contact. Because the gallery places great importance on the materiality of art, we chose a white that carries a tangible presence—one in which abstraction and physicality rise simultaneously. In this, we found a resonance with the silence and sincerity with which they engage with artworks.

The desk layout was planned as a translation of the building’s latent spatial potential into a new mode of working. Conversations arise naturally with just a slight turn of the body, flowing seamlessly into shared discussions over documents or monitor screens. Rather than defining meeting rooms as separate enclosures, the space embraces the continuity of movement, creating an environment where communication remains light and fluid.