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Chiba design exhibition explores "the idea of home as both origin and destination"

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Design studio Akasaki & Vanhuyse has presented the Home-Home exhibition, which showcased works by 16 designers and artists in a modernist house in Chiba, Japan.

Home-Home was on display inside the 1974 Bundle Gallery house, designed by Japanese architect Ren Suzuki, who worked with architect Le Corbusier in the 1950s before returning to Japan.

It featured works by both local and international designers, some of whom were showing in the country for the first time.

Home-Home was on show in a house from 1974

"Home–Home is a self-initiated show where we invited designers connected to Japan to exhibit alongside us," Akasaki & Vanhuyse co-founder Astrid Vanhuyse told Dezeen.

"We wanted to explore the idea of home as both origin and destination, creating a dialogue between the works, the architecture and the lived experiences behind them."

The exhibition was spread across five rooms of the house, which the curators chose because of its intimate feel.

Aluminium pallets were stacked to form displays

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