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Mitsui Fudosan x Tokyo University of the Arts
Kashiwanoha Hotel Guest Room Art Project

 

Opened in Kashiwanoha

Mitsui Garden Hotel Kashiwanoha Parkside

Guest room artwork was created by Mitsui Fudosan, Tokyo University of the Arts Art Creation Organization,

Co-created by the Department of Design, Tokyo University of the Arts.

The guest rooms are decorated with paintings with the theme of ``travel scenery.''

PHOTO

Guest room photo: Kentaro Terada

SCENERY・STORY

The theme is “​Travel Scenery”
Treat the forehead as a “window”
Makes me want to travel again
Scenery that everyone has seen

Shunsuke Ikai is a printmaker and
Oil painting using a roller, letterpress printing, and foil stamping
By making full use of etc.
Each piece has a different look

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SUN of SEA
​ The sun of the sea

2022 400 x 512 mm Prints, Oil Paintings, Rollers, Letterpress Printing

 

The sun seen in the sea looks brighter and brighter than usual

Shines vertically so that it is perpendicular to the boundary of the sea

Looking at the brilliance of light,

I feel like going to a city somewhere far away

The sea and the sun give you the feeling of openness and curiosity you felt when you were a child.

Has some mysterious power to stimulate

The sun at se a looks more dazzling than elsewhere.

It appears to shine blue.

It shines vertically and straight so that it is perpendicular to

the boundary of the sea.

When I look at the brilliant light at sea,

I feel like I want to go to some distant city.

The sea and the sun have a mysterious power to

stimulate my curiosity and

the sense of freedom I felt as a child.

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ROAD and HOUSE
Road and house

2022 400 x 512 mm Prints, Oil Paintings, Rollers, Letterpress Printing

 

When you are looking at the scenery of the mountains that spreads far away

Eyes are on the mountains that change color in layers

From dark green to gradually becoming lighter and bluer

Eventually assimilate with the color of the air

The road just continues to the foot of the mountain

The house is quietly in the sun

As I gaze at the mountain landscape

spreading out into the distance

I see the mountains changing colors in layers.

From dark green, they gradually become

lighter and bluer and eventually

assimilating into the  color of the air.

The road just goes on and on to

the foot of the mountain

The house is quietly basking in the sun.

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RICH COLOR
Toyosai

2022 400 x 512 mm Prints, Oil Paintings, Rollers, Letterpress Printing

 

The sun goes down

The mountains begin to darken little by little

Just a little before

Time for complex colors to overlap

Cool and warm colors of the day

It mixes with light and shines

The sun begins to set

The mountains begin to darken little by little

Just a little while before

It is the time of complex layers of color

All the colors of the day, cold and warm

Mix with the light and shine

TRANQUIL BLUE

plain blue

2022 400 x 512 mm Print, oil painting, roller, letterpress, foil stamping

 

Appeared in the mountains with few people

Plain blue stretching out

Flat to the mountains and continuing forever

Let a pleasant cool breeze blow from time to time

Biting the white waves

Return to the silence as if time has stopped again

A deep  blue  lake that exists in the mountains.

Few people disturb it.

It's  flat until the mountain,  and seems to go on forever.

Sometimes a pleasant cool breeze is blowing.

after it bites the white wave.

Then, back to the stillness that seems to have stopped time again.

Artist
Writer introduction

Shunsuke Ikai Shunsuke Ikai

 
Born in Tokyo. Graduated from the University of the Arts London. Designer at Takashi Murakami's K aikaikiki
After working as an illustrator, he established his own company, ALB AT RODESIGN.

Since 2016, he has been appointed as a Technical Instructor at Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Design, Plane Imaging Studio.

 

Born in Tokyo, Japan. Graduated f rom University of  the Arts London. Worked as a designer   and illustrator for Takashi Murakami's _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136 . Established his  own company,

ALBATRO DESIGN. In 2016, became a technical instructor at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

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Making

Mitsui Fudosan x Tokyo University of the Arts
Kashiwanoha Hotel Guest Room Art Project

Planning: Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. Hotel / Resort Business Department (Yu Oda, Masashi Yoshida, Michiko Kabe, Aya Nakano, Yuki Murayama)
Design Direction: Tokyo University of the Arts Design Department (Kazuyuki Hashimoto, Satoshi Sasaki)
Writer: Shunsuke Inokai (Technical Instructor, Department of Design, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Room design: Mitsui Designtec Co., Ltd. (Rumi Ito)
Artwork production cooperation: MINGLE  Design  Office 

This page was created by Kazuyuki Hashimoto & Tokyo University of the Arts Design Department 9th Laboratory  (  Design Embody)

© ︎Kazuyuki Hashimoto

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