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Category: Stores

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Nicolas G. Hayek Center The Lockup You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Comme des Garcons Guerrilla Store +4161 in Basel

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    Dezeen has a few photos up of the Comme des Garcons Guerrilla Store +4161 in Basel.

  • Swatch Group Japan’s Nicolas G. Hayek Center

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    I’m surprised I missed this — I was even in Ginza yesterday for one of my gallery tours — but Swatch Group Japan’s Nicolas G. Hayek Center (7-9-18 Ginza), designed by Shigeru Ban, is now open. The photo above comes from this TimeZone post, which includes a few more shots of the building.

  • Uniqlock Is Live

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    Remember that Uniqlock site I pointed to last week? It’s now live, and turns out that it’s a flash-based clock featuring music by Fantastic Plastic Machine, and includes a widget (as seen above) that you can put on your site. You can only do Tokyo right now, but other cities will be added very soon.…

  • Uniqlock

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    Patrick sent me a link to this page, which seems to preview an upcoming project, “Uniqlock,” that will team Fantastic Plastic Machine and Uniqlo, to launch June 15. FPM has previously produced a compilation album for the launch of the brand’s flagship store in New York.

  • 5 Years of Tokyo Recohan

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    It’s hard to believe, but Patrick announced in his latest newsletter that Tokyo Recohan, the online used CD store he runs, has just turned 5! Congratulations are in order — running a service like this surely takes a lot of his time, and it’s quite admirable that he’s kept at it for so long —…

  • Nadiff in Aoyama to Close

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    As spotted in Momus’ latest post, the Nadiff store in Aoyama will close by the end of the month, to be re-opened later this year in a new location and under a new name. From their website: Artshop NADiff which celebrated the tenth anniversary in March at Omote-sando, Tokyo, will be closed by the end…

  • Alakazam

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    Boicozine highlights the Alakazam label, made up of illustrators Will Sweeney and Susumu Mukai (Zongamin). I remember when they had launched at Beams T last year, but hadn’t heard anything since. The same post also mentions that Silas is now going to focus solely on its operations in Japan.