The Story of SLPer — our hero capsule. SLPer, (‘sleeper’) was first inspired by the beds in the sleeping cabins on the trains, on which I traveled through Europe in my twenties. I was an architecture graduate student then. I was visiting one great architecture after another, to learn from…

My encounter with Toryo Ito-san, the Zen Monk of Ryosoku-in, Kyoto, Japan, and the meditation on fashion. When I first met Toryo Ito-san, I was with our team of X.O.s (eXperience Officers from SLEEEP) on a Research Retreat (as Japanese would call it a 研修.) The elegance of the setting…

SLEEEP, the wellness+R.E. tech start-up best known to date for its Capsule Living Network, is collaborating with the visionary Zen Monk Ito Toryo to launch a new meditation experience: 雲是 Cloud Sitting 8 x 30 An inaugural meditation series: 8 morning-sittings of 20–30 minutes each, led by the Zen Monk, Vice-abbot of Ryosoku-in…

Introducing SLEEEP.bkk.silom Converted from a 5-story townhouse with a mezzanine, situated 2 minutes from the Sala Daeng BTS station, SLEEEP.silom.bkk is SLEEEP’s major international expansion and a significant milestone for this hospitality-technology start-up. …

Basel, Powered by SLEEEP This old Swiss town along the Rhine has a population of mere 180,000, sits so close to Germany that one could take a bus to have a German dinner, grab some grocery and back on a normal evening. It is home to classical European cathedrals as…

Basel 2019.6.13 Few kilometers away from the festivities of the Art Basel, a tranquil, quiet, and restful piece of installation finds its space in a vacant apartment in the center of Basel. SLEEEP — the Hong Kong Sleep Tech Start-up committed to building a sustainable culture through quality sleep…

A: “Should we turn right here?” J: “Wait, it should be right there… but it’s not.” A: “The map is wrong.” J: “I think the destination address is wrong. It’s the same street in a different city.” A: “…OK, you’re right.” J: “Let’s pull over, get it right.” ….. (input…

Why on earth do all XOs (eXperience Officers) at SLEEEP wear white shoes? Isn’t that impractical and unsustainable? When we were young, part of our school uniforms for P.E. (Physical Education, i.e. Sports/playground time) were the inevitable white canvas shoes. White, spotless, no logos, no ornaments, no graphics, just plain…

“Remember that it was not too long ago when the paper, the silk, the ceramics that came from China were considered the best in the world.” Professor Edoardo Currà from the Sapienza University of Rome told me, as I shared with him a simple but inspiring dream a long time…