Close to nature and beautifully minimalist, the Zen-like interiors featured in a new book offer a glimpse inside the Japanese mindset. "The home – before it is a place of beauty – is a place for ...

Minimalist hotels in Japan create an environment that is a far-cry from your regular hotels, even the luxury variants. Those luxury business hotels where everything is cramped into an inadequately ...

Japanese firm, TAPO Architects have unveiled a beautiful timber house located in Sakura City in the Japanese prefecture of Chiba. Surrounded by peaceful forest, the Sakura Villa is a sophisticated ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Subtlety has defined Japanese design throughout the 20th century: the household brand Muji prides itself on ...

Some say minimalism is actually not foreign but a natural outgrowth of Zen Buddhism and its stripped-down world view. Most religions have a history of aestheticism. Many monks took vows of poverty. I ...