The historical selection brings together significant examples of Japanese furniture and lighting, including an armchair and a lamp originally designed for the lobby of Tokyo's Hotel Okura, inaugurated in 1962. Conceived by Yoshiro Taniguchi, the hotel embodied the integration of modern architectural principles with traditional Japanese spatial and material sensibilities. Alongside these works, the presentation features Isamu Kenmochi's Kashiwado armchair, a bamboo sofa by Ubunji Kidokoro, whose craftsmanship informed Charlotte Perriand's research in Japan, and furniture and lighting designed by Togo Murano for Kyoto's former Miyako Hotel. Together, these pieces reveal the close relationship between architectural authorship, traditional craftsmanship, and the evolution of modern Japanese interiors.

In dialogue with this historical selection, contemporary works by Yuji Ueda and Thomas Takada extend the exhibition's exploration of material, nature, and time. Ueda's ceramics embrace the unpredictable transformations of clay and firing, allowing the process of making to remain visible within each object. Takada's Maple Sapling lighting series incorporates dried autumn leaves, drawing upon the Japanese tradition of momijigari, the appreciation of autumn foliage, to reflect on seasonal change and transience. Across different generations and disciplines, the presentation considers Japanese design as a continuous negotiation between tradition and modernity, where inherited knowledge, material experimentation, and cultural memory remain central to contemporary expression.