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Jul 13, 2021

パパ研修 / Father-and-son Road Trip #1

On just a normal weekend, my son Issey and I took a 24 hour road trip to some new places and spent some quality time together. I felt a noticeable deepening in our connection before and after. It was simple, we shared a lot of FUN. It was Saturday afternoon…

Father And Son

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パパ研修 / Father-and-son Road Trip #1
パパ研修 / Father-and-son Road Trip #1
Father And Son

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Sleeep Talking

·Jul 27, 2020

An architecture for Everyone

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…

Design

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An architecture for Everyone
An architecture for Everyone
Design

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Sleeep Talking

·May 24, 2020

The Fashionable Zen Monk

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…

Zen

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The Fashionable Zen Monk
The Fashionable Zen Monk
Zen

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Sleeep Talking

·Apr 17, 2020

Sleep ✕ Meditation

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…

Zen

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Sleep ✕ Meditation
Sleep ✕ Meditation
Zen

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Sleeep Talking

·Jan 8, 2020

SLEEEP: From HKG to BKK, to Global

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. …

Wabi Sabi

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SLEEEP: From HKG to BKK, to Global
SLEEEP: From HKG to BKK, to Global
Wabi Sabi

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Sleeep Talking

·Oct 7, 2019

Basel, Powered by SLEEEP

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…

Hong Kong

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Basel, Powered by SLEEEP
Basel, Powered by SLEEEP
Hong Kong

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Sleeep Talking

·Oct 7, 2019

Waves — Wendy Tai x SLEEEP

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…

Hong Kong

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Waves — Wendy Tai x SLEEEP
Waves — Wendy Tai x SLEEEP
Hong Kong

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Sleeep Talking

·Apr 14, 2019

The Founders’ Story (of Failures)

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…

Hong Kong

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The Founders’ Story (of Failures)
The Founders’ Story (of Failures)
Hong Kong

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Sleeep Talking

·Feb 4, 2019

White Shoes

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…

Fashion

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White Shoes
White Shoes
Fashion

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EXP.Press

·Nov 28, 2017

The Quality of China

“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…

China

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The Quality of China
The Quality of China
China

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