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Lemon Hotel

VI and sound design for an artwork at Setouchi Triennale

Lemon Hotel is an artwork/accommodation produced by Smiles Co., Ltd., with graphic and sound design by Takram.

A traditional Japanese house was renovated into an art installation that can only be appreciated as a pair. A visitor would have to wait for someone else to arrive if s/he came on his / her own. After the closing of the installation each night, the venue turns into a hotel, whose general manager himself cooks a dinner course full of local lemons.

This artwork is not like a painting or sculpture, but intangible and intimate like a reminiscence of your adolescent days, says Smiles. The logo represents this concept through softly shaped multilingual scripts with a copy of pure & sour.

Lemon Hotel was exhibited at Setouchi Triennale 2016. Visiting the art installation does not require reservations.

Lemon Hotel Official Website

Team

Creative Direction:
Kotaro Watanabe
Graphic Design:
Kotaro Yamaguchi,

Tomomi Maezawa (ex-Takram)

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Maki Ota (ex-Takram)

Web Design & Photography:
Kotaro Yamaguchi, Terushige Enatsu
Sound Design:
Keisuke Oyama
Tokyo

Onden Imaizumi BLDG
5-7-4 Jingumae
Shibuya-ku
150-0001 Tokyo, JAPAN

London

First Floor
7 Bath Place
London EC2A 3DR, UK

New York

68 Jay Street, Suite 432, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

Shanghai

109, 18F, L'Avenue
No.99, Xianxia Road, Changning District
Shanghai, China