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Tokyo Salone 2026 Our signal begins. In deep co-conspiracy with @teenageengineering x @semipermanent we open the first wave. Tokyo Salone, Flagship Conversations Nourish The rooms we have been shaping for over two years. Tickets on sale. Link in bio. lu.ma/tokyo-salone lu.ma/nourish-tokyo semipermanent.com/tokyo-salone More constellations will follow, announced in the coming weeks. // Wave one speakers: Jesper Kouthoofd, teenage engineering @kouthoofd70 Noah Murphy Reinhertz, Nike @noahmurphyreinhertz Emil Kullänger Axelman, teenage engineering @emil_kullanger Richard Wood, Snøhetta @snohetta Ana Arriola-Kanada, semi permanent @arriolakanada DJ Grunhaar @grunhaar Anne-Marie Buemann, OEO Studio @annemariebuemann Thomas Lykke, OEO Studio @mr.thomaslykke Jesús Durón, MASA @j_duron_ Natasha Jen, Pentagram @njenworks DJ SHUY @alvnco Hector Silva, Advanced Design @hectorius_ Matt Alt @altmattalt Dylan Sisson, Pixar @real_dylan_sisson Paul Bennett @pb101 DJ Blade Olson @bladeolson Eri Tsutsumi, Boundless Life @boundlesslife Javier Villar Ruiz, Kengo Kuma & Associates @javiervillarruiz.designing Shin Nakahara, Landscape Products @shinnakahara UESATSU @_uesatsu Takayuki Tanaka, divka @divkanet DJ vvøid Evi O, Formist Editions @evi_o Leila Kelleher, a space, in between. @asib.design Akiko Mega, Faro @akikomega Sandeep Pahuja, Preferred Futures @sandiddy Justin Khanna, Repertoire @justinkhanna Dino Dalle Carbonare, Turnpike @dino_dalle_carbonare Rachel Gogel @rgogel Ignacio Lopez-Francos, NASA Vaughn Tan @vaughn.tan Marie C Yuki Meon @mangermanger_mcyuki Christopher Haatuft, Lysverket @christopherhaatuft Max Shapiro @maxshapiro DJ Dandy @djdandytokyo Douglas Weber @weberworkshops Ryo Haga, Jorn @ryohaga__ // Wave two and three will follow. Additional voices will enter the room. And one we hold back. A beloved keynote for Nourish. Announced the morning it begins. // This is not a single event. It is a system. A set of rooms. A way of staying in conversation. From Tokyo. Through Shibuya. Outward. // Tickets now live. Join us. (link in our bio) @teenageengineering @semipermanent @tokyosalone

Thirdspace Thirdweeks — Prelude We began. Tokyo Salone @tokyosalone curated by Semi Permanent × Teenage Engineering @teenageengineering opened the year with our first gathering at Soho House Tokyo @sohohouse.tokyo in partnership with Tokyo American Club, Weber Workshops, Massif @massiftokyo Midori.so @midoris0 KCRW @kcrw A first room. A first signal. Dino Dalle Carbonare @dino_dalle_carbonare and Richard Wood @rjw__ @snohetta were joined by Doug Weber @weberworkshops in conversation with Ana Arriola-Kanada @arriolakanada , exploring culture, modern luxury, and chosen community. Together, they moved through culture as practice, not aesthetic. How culture is lived, not consumed. JDM as ritual and belonging. Architecture as daily behavior and memory. They asked where authenticity lives once culture becomes visible, exported, or monetized. Modern luxury was reframed. Not price. Not status. But time, access, rarity, silence, precision, slowness. A tuned engine. A proportioned space. A moment of stillness. What feels full. What feels empty. What followed was equally important. Vulnerability. Stories of failure, of missteps, of lessons carried forward. An offering back into the room. The AMA opened further. Questions moved across architecture, mobility, and design: Why Tokyo’s modern architecture can feel less adventurous than Hong Kong, Singapore, or Bangkok. What you take when everything is gone. Why car culture still matters in a rail-dominant Japan. Where restomods are heading. How to hold excellence without it being mistaken for elitism. What community means in large-scale design. What connects across disciplines. The room held it all. With curiosity. With care. A deep thank you to our House members and invited community for the energy, presence, and generosity you brought into this first gathering. We’ll see you next month. And the months that follow. From Tokyo. Through Shibuya. Outward. Tickets begin releasing May 1 lu.ma/semipermanent (link in bio) More to unfold. Stay close.

Something is about to open. First wave of tickets releases May 1. Tokyo Salone begins to take shape. Book your flights. Reserve your stay. Autumn in Japan moves differently. Our first keynote wave arrives May 1. More will follow, slowly, across the months. Across the constellations. A season unfolding, April through January. Tokyo awaits. November 2026 (link in our bio) Tokyo Salone, Flagship Conversations Nourish Nightshift Shakedown Shibuya, The Culture of Modern Luxury Speculative Futures Thirdspace Thirdweeks Friends Of Future Of Moments Tokyo American Club, Azabudai Hills Soho House Tokyo @sohohouse.tokyo Midori.so @midoris0 Massif Tokyo @massiftokyo Tickets begin releasing May 1 SemiPermanent.com/tokyo-salone (link in bio) lu.ma/semipermanent (link in bio) More to unfold. Stay close. @semipermanent @teenageengineering @tokyosalone With deep gratitude to the many hands, minds, and hearts who shaped this with us, named and unnamed. We see you. We carry this forward together.

Something rare is taking shape. Tokyo Salone × Teenage Engineering Not a partnership. A shared signal. Together, we begin shaping Tokyo Salone as a living cultural system. One that moves across disciplines, formats, and time. “There’s a natural chemistry here, a shared way of seeing, of listening, of building. We’re laying the foundation for something that will travel, evolve, and return.” — @arriolakanada Builder of Rooms /「 yes, 」 / @SemiPermanent @TokyoSalone “There’s a rare alignment here. Culture isn’t fixed. It’s built, together, over time. What starts here won’t stay here.” — @emil_kullanger Head of PR / First Contact @teenageengineering November 2026 Tokyo Salone, Flagship Conversations Nourish Nightshift Shakedown Shibuya, The Culture of Modern Luxury Speculative Futures Thirdspace Thirdweeks Friends Of Future Of Moments Tokyo American Club, Azabudai Hills Area Soho House Tokyo @sohohouse.tokyo Midori.so / @midoris0 Massif Tokyo / @massiftokyo Tickets begin releasing in May. SemiPermanent.com/tokyo-salone (link in bio) lu.ma/semipermanent j(link in bio) More to unfold. Stay close. @semipermanent @teenageengineering @tokyosalone With deep gratitude to the many hands, minds, and hearts who shaped this with us, named and unnamed. We see you. We carry this forward together.

A new room opens. Thirdspace Thirdweeks Tokyo Salone × Teenage Engineering × Soho House Not a program. A shared rhythm. Each month, we gather in Tokyo. Creative leaders, chefs, builders, cultural practitioners. In proximity. In conversation. Small rooms. Designed for presence. “Not a program, but a rhythm. A way of staying in conversation.” — @arriolakanada Builder of Rooms @SemiPermanent @tokyosalone “Culture never settles. It drifts, shifts, mutates.” — @emil_kullanger Head of PR / First Contact @teenageengineering Soho House Tokyo becomes the setting. Discreet. Connected. Human. “Spaces where creative communities connect with ease, and where dialogue and relationships continue.” — @albertlinhk Asia Membership Director, Soho House & Co Together, we shape something ongoing. By November, nothing starts from zero. “Continuity is what matters. Not just who’s in the room, but who keeps returning.” — Aidan Walsh, Global Membership Strategy Manager, Soho House & Co Monthly releases, limited seats. A few held for our global community. lu.ma/semipermanent (link in bio) Stay close. @sohohouse.tokyo @semipermanent @teenageengineering @tokyosalone April–August, released. September–December, and Tiny House by Thirdspace Thirdweeks, dropping soon

This week we felt deep gratitude for our partners at @sohohouse.tokyo / @sohohouse Together through Thirdspace Thirdweeks, Tokyo Salone with Soho House, we are building rooms where different worlds can meet. Rooms shaped with care by the remarkable women and non-binary humans who guide our curation and advisory circles. The warmth and thoughtfulness the Soho House Tokyo team showed this week toward our community meant a great deal. Thank you for holding the rooms with such care. From Tokyo. Through Shibuya. Outward. Misako @mismisbehave Harna @h.a.r.n.a Albert @albertlinhk Aidan …and the rest of the team. #InternationalWomensDay Building rooms where disciplines meet, and future generations inherit responsibility. @tokyosalone @semipermanent @tokyosalone #TokyoSalone #SemiPermanent

International Women’s Day Today we pause for a moment of recognition. Tokyo Salone, Semi Permanent, and our constellations exist because of the extraordinary women and non-binary leaders who choose to steward this work with care, courage, and imagination. Across our curation teams and advisory board, you bring disciplines together that rarely sit in the same rooms. Architects with chefs. Engineers with artists. Founders with the next generation sitting close enough to learn. You remind us that leadership is stewardship. That knowledge should move across generations. That responsibility should move with it. Our work is not spectacle. It is cultural infrastructure. The rooms we build together make it possible for different worlds to meet, listen, and imagine what comes next. To every woman and non-binary leader helping shape this cultural platform, and the many futures beyond it, thank you. From Tokyo. Through Shibuya. Outward. With gratitude… Miyuki @miyukulele Aimee @aimeeenicholls Imogen @andinothernews Aya @aya_roiro Sarah @sarahkhoven Akari @grunhaar Naomi @kittyzillastudio Hiroko @hi_yoda_1 Tania @tania_hack Shoka @shokaomi Anne-Marie @annemariebuemann @oeo_studio Sakiko @sakiko.kbys @three.and Evi @evi_o @evi_o.studio @formisteditions Liesbeth & Elsje @oltmansvanniekerk Rachel @rgogel Megumi @kanadamegumi Mio @_mmmmmmm_y Hiro @5putniko Ana @arriolakanada #InternationalWomensDay Building rooms where disciplines meet, and future generations inherit responsibility. @tokyosalone @semipermanent @tokyosalone #TokyoSalone #SemiPermanent

Moments .02 ✨ A night of stillness, depth, and shared creative courage. Thank you to everyone who filled the room at Massif Tokyo with warmth and curiosity. Together, we created a space where honest dialogue could unfold, where identity, process, and imagination could stretch and breathe. Our gratitude to: @keimeguro — for showing us the emotional truth inside portraiture. @_uesatsu — for expanding our sense of perception and graphic expression. @_mmmmmmm_y — for grounding the night with clarity, insight, and care. And to @masamiyajamiehikaru who held the conversation with precision and gentleness. Moments is designed as a pause… a small, intentional gathering for Japan’s creative vanguard to return to why we make, not just what we make. Thank you for shaping this night with us. Your presence is the architecture of Moments. We’ll see you in early 2026 for Moments .03, as we explore JDM culture with @dino_dalle_carbonare honoring heritage, joy, and the open road ahead. Moments .02 ✨ 静けさと深さ、そして創造の勇気が重なる夜。 Massif Tokyo に集まり、あたたかさと好奇心で満たしてくださった皆さま、 本当にありがとうございました。 この場は、率直な対話がゆっくりと広がり、 アイデンティティやプロセス、想像力が自由に息づく空間となりました。 心からの感謝を込めて： 目黒ケイ — 肖像表現の奥にある感情の真実を。 UESATSU — 知覚とグラフィック表現の新しい地平を。 横田未緒 — 明晰さと洞察、そして静かな強さを届けてくれたこと。 そして、丁寧に対話を導いてくれた Jamie Hikaru Masamiya に。 Moments は「立ち止まるための場」。 日本のクリエイティブ先駆者たちが、 “何をつくるか” だけでなく、 “なぜ、どのようにつくるのか” に立ち返るための、小さく、意図的なサロンです。 この夜を共につくり上げてくださり、ありがとうございました。 皆さまの存在こそが、Moments の建築そのものです。 次回 Moments .03 は 2026年初頭。 Dino Dalle Carbonare さんとともに、 JDMカルチャー 遺産、歓び、そして未来のオープンロードを探求します。 Huge thank you to our partners @kcrw @kcrwmusic @mezzaninemakers.jp @asib.design and @squarespace and for the creative team at @massiftokyo @will_bailey and @max_houtzager Building rooms where disciplines meet, and future generations inherit responsibility. @tokyosalone @semipermanent @tokyosalone #TokyoSalone #SemiPermanent From Tokyo. Through Shibuya. Outward.

Nourish 15-16 Nov, Tokyo. Link in the bio. Reconnecting with the land. With the hands that coax life from soil, and the hearts that weave quiet magic atop it. Today, we listened, to the patience of the fields, to the breath of the seasons, to the artistry of those who make nourishment possible. As we shape Nourish, Beyond the Plate, we hold close the lessons of those before us, the reverence @nomacph and (formerly) @inuajp brought to Japan’s farmers and foragers, rooted in humility and shared purpose. But reverence is only the beginning. We must do more, to protect those who feed us, to end extractive and predatory habits here in Japan, to center the grower, the gatherer, and the land in every act of creation. Nourish, Beyond the Plate is a forward-thinking gastronomy symposium where culture, creativity, and cuisine meet. Designed as a two-day AERU experience — Artistry, Explore, Research, Understand, it invites world-class chefs, culinary innovators, and creative thinkers to explore what lies beyond the plate. It is not just about food but ideas, systems, and connections. From test kitchens to cultural labs, Nourish examines how gastronomy can drive sustainability, shape community, and inspire new ways of living. Rooted in Japan yet global in outlook, Nourish is where the next generation of chefs and cultural leaders gather to reimagine food as a medium for change, one that brings people together, challenges convention, and creates lasting impact. This is where AERU lives, in the space between giving and receiving, between chef and farmer, soil and soul, offering and gratitude. Through AERU, we remember: the land is not a resource, it is a relationship. And every plate begins long before it reaches the table. 🌾 #SemiPermanent #Nourish #AERU #BeyondThePlate #RegenerativeCulture #FarmToTable #Japan #CulinaryEthics #RespectTheLand #InSeason @fiestafarmjpn @justinkhanna @j_duron_ @ryohaga__ @alvnco @_mmmmmmm_y @kare_martens @semipermanent

Read our full interview on SemiPermanent.com Beneath the surface of design lies a hunger, for connection, for ritual, for possibility. In The Architecture of Appetite, @snohetta Snøhetta’s Richard Wood (Managing Director, Asia) shares how dining and architecture intertwine: both rituals of community, shaped by taste, tradition, and storytelling. From Sunday roasts in Manchester to yum cha in Hong Kong, food becomes a cultural bridge, just as architecture does. Few projects capture this more vividly than Under, the world’s largest underwater restaurant in Norway, a feat of design that immerses guests in the sea itself. For Wood, every project is a collective act of imagination, where chefs, architects, and communities shape experiences that nourish body and spirit. Whether a library, an opera house, or a restaurant submerged beneath the waves, Snøhetta keeps asking: how do we design for connection? Building rooms where disciplines meet, and future generations inherit responsibility. @tokyosalone @semipermanent #TokyoSalone #SemiPermanent From Tokyo. Through Shibuya. Outward.

Join Us / Moments — link above /moments 以下の日本語の編集記事もぜひご覧ください。Moments in Omotesandō reminded us: the most meaningful ideas grow in small rooms. With Marco Lui and Shinichi Iriya, we explored lenses that see beyond the surface, the balance between movement & stillness, and the quiet glow that defines Japanese visual culture. Thank you to everyone who joined with open minds and generous hearts. We left with a renewed sense that what we create matters, but how and why we create matters even more. Next salon: Oct 23 – Visual Communication Design & Illustration, with Mio Yokota and Kei Meguro. At Semi Permanent, we hold space for all voices—across cultures, across languages—because true community in Japan means we listen, share, and grow together. @semipermanentjapan @semipermanent @squarespace @tokyosalone #MomentsTokyo #SemiPermanent #Squarespace #TokyoSalone Big love to @kcrw @chiobenfc @mezzaninemakers.jp for bringing the vibes and the substance. And to top it off—our community scored the bespoke, ultimate farmers market bag, dreamed up by @asib.design x @sarahkhoven x @rgogel 表参道のMomentsで、あらためて思い出しました。 最も意味のあるアイデアは、小さな空間から芽生えるのだと。 マルコ・ルイと入矢真一とともに探ったのは、 表層を超えて見るまなざし、 動きと静けさのあいだにある均衡、 そして日本のヴィジュアルカルチャーを特徴づける、穏やかな光の余韻。 心をひらき、寛大な気持ちで集ってくださった皆さまに感謝します。 大切なのは「何をつくるか」だけでなく、「なぜ、どのように つくるのか」であることを、あらためて胸に刻みました。 次回開催｜10月23日 テーマ：ビジュアル・コミュニケーション・デザインとイラストレーション 登壇者：目黒ケイ、横田未央 日本で、互いに耳を傾け、分かち合い、ともに成長していくこと――それが真のコミュニティだと私たちは信じています。 @kcrw x @mezzaninemakers.jp x @chiobenfc に、心からの感謝を。上質な雰囲気と忘れがたい深みを届けてくれました。 極めつけは—— @asib.design x @sarahkhoven x @rgogel が生み出した唯一無二のオリジナルマーケットバッグ。私たちのコミュニティに特別な一品が加わりましたファーマーズは日本にほぼないので。 プロフィール内のリンク /moments Join us — Semi Permanent Moments｜少人数制のクリエイティブサロン

The word ‘multi-disciplinary’ gets thrown around a lot in our industry but it is perhaps in relation to cooking and chefs where this word fits the bill most accurately. Chefs play not only with the visual sensory organ, but also through smell, taste, sound, touch and emotions. We had the pleasure of interviewing one such chef, Jacob Kear @dinnerbykear from @lurra_kyoto LURRA° restaurant in Kyoto. Kyoto is the ‘bread basket’ of Japan and Jacob hand picks his ingredients every morning from this basket, in order to design his creations. Once a dish goes off the menu it never comes back. No repetition of old tricks, just pure and immediate creative expressions. #Nourish #NourishSymposium #kyoto #50bestdiscovery #asia50best #michelinguidejp #michelinguide #thebestchefawards #worlds50best #michelinstar #oad #gaultmillau #ミシュラン #ゴエミヨ Building rooms where disciplines meet, and future generations inherit responsibility. @tokyosalone @semipermanent #TokyoSalone #SemiPermanent From Tokyo. Through Shibuya. Outward.