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For this dinner, the Obamas are showing off the new modern-design Obama State China Service in what the first lady calls "Kailua Blue," inspired by the waters off the president's home state of Hawaii. The menu, with Japanese chef Masaharu Morimoto (of Iron The McIntires don’t claim a special affinity for Japanese or Asian culture, though they have traveled to Japan and China. They say the house is a combination of interesting architectural styles and design writer in The Washington Post’s Local Today, the global competition in product design is stiff and diverse. The top 10 companies earning the most awards include Royal Philips (Netherlands), followed by LG Electronics (South Korea), NEFF/Bosch (Germany), Hewlett Packard (USA), Sony (Japan JAPAN IS A COUNTRY that has long had appeal to foreigners, and modernists in the West have been greatly influenced by the traditional Japanese way of life. Simplicity, functionalism and minimalism -three of the most important elements of Japanese design A secluded passage extends along one edge of this house in Japan by Alts Design Office, bringing natural light into the interior (+ slideshow). Japanese studio Alts Design Office, whose previous projects include a house filled with pointed doorways and 91, died at his home on his birthday, Sunday witnessing the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima and the ultimate surrender of the Japanese at Tokyo Bay. Mr. Varadi welded parts of the first jet aircraft engine made in America qualifying him .

Many are small middle-class homes, not a typology where we expect to find bold avant garde design. So, what is it about Japan that encourages such everyday risk taking? In the West, deviation from societal norms can jeopardize a home’s value, since it After he learned that the old relic had historic significance and previously served as a community center, Kishimoto resolved to integrate the train car into the new home design. He continued the train theme by building a platform-shaped house with an Let's say you needed a really small house, perhaps a Dome Home, to put on a secluded place on a beach, somewhere far off and away. Schemata Architecture Office Ltd. is a group of designers showing a concept small second house that you could build yourself The PS3's Folding@home service has nabbed a prestigious Good Design Award, AKA "G-Mark." Since 1957, the Good Design Award has been instituted by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry to award outstanding design in industrial and .