citylikeyou — Tokyo / Janet Hansen

Janet Hansen is a designer at New York book publisher Alfred A. Knopf. She also works with clients including New Directions, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. She currently lives in a little old craftsman home in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband and two whippets.

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Graphic Designer

Current city: Montclair

Other cities: Marrakesh Tokyo New York

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Montclair / Bookstore

An independent bookstore with talks and live music events. It shares its space with a cafe offering coffee and delicious food.

Montclair / Restaurant

An American restaurant with seasonal, local sourced food, a romantic ambience, and a nicely curated wall of sculptures and drawings by local artist Tom Nussbaum.

Montclair / Hotel

A boutique hotel originally built by architect Charles Van Vleck in 1902. The bones of the landmark property remain intact while being updated with modern industrial touches.

Montclair / Shop

Parcel is a curiosity shop filled with ephemera, vintage holiday décor, quirky collectibles, quality stationery, and creative craft materials of all sorts.

Marrakesh / Garden Centre

The Majorelle Garden is a botanical garden and artist's landscape garden. It was created by French Orientalist artist, Jacques Majorelle, and starting in 1923 it features a Cubist villa designed by French architect.

Marrakesh / Hotel

An absolutely stunning and private boutique riad right in the old medina of Marrakesh. Amazing moroccan food, pools, and cocktails.

Marrakesh / Restaurant

Eat on the rooftop and watch a beautiful sunset. Great food and ambiance.

Marrakesh / Market

Beautiful chaos. I recommend a "tour guide" your first time here as it is very easy to get lost in these tiny streets and alley ways. In 1147, the Berber Almohades conquered the city, destroying most of the buildings and rebuilding its' medina. A bustling market with different sections including tile, metal, art, scarves, jewelry, rugs, antiques, teas, oils, etc. Be careful to decipher what "shops" are authentically Berber, and which are actually just items made in china. A tour guide will also help teach you what to look out for...

Tokyo / Designer

Kodai Iwamoto (born in Kagoshima, Japan) starts his study of product design at Kobe Design University in Japan. While a bachelor's degree there, he joined a DESIGN SOIL, which is an educational design project by teaching staff and students. Through the project, he had participated in several international design fairs such as Milan Design Week. After the study in Kobe, he then moved to Lausanne in Switzerland, where he lived for 2 years to gain practical skills at master course in ECAL( École cantonale d'art de Lausanne ). After life in Lausanne, he moved his base to Tokyo and has been actively working with some furniture brands both in Japan and abroad.

Tokyo / Photographer

Hiroshi Takizawa is a Tokyo based photographer who graduated from Mejiro University Faculty of Human Sciences Department of Psychological Counseling in 2006. Recently Hiroshi was awarded the Tokyo Frontline Photo Award 2012. "The reason why I take pictures is probably due to my desire to know about the root of everything. Of course, there is always more than one essence to things, and opinions differ depending on where you stand. However, there is only one truth. Perhaps, preparation and experience is required to accept this antinomy. It seems difficult to know the root of everything in this antinomy, but I will continue to compare the inside and outside in my works, based on the belief that everything is connected."

Tokyo / Photographer

Mariko Sakaguchi is a Tokyo based art photographer who studied at the Hongik University of Art Korea, and at the department of Moving Image and Performing Arts at Tama Art University, Tokyo. Artist Statement: "I am making art works by using photography. I am trying to cross the sense of private and public, and also now and past by taking bath in old style Japanese bathtub and stepping into photography by myself, You can see I take bath anywhere, It means the place you are seeing my works and also the place you are at now are not off-site. The place where you are has possibilities to be the scene of my works. You are not spectator, but party of my work, art. I want to be a part of art with you all."

Tokyo / Illustrator

painting and drawing

Tokyo / Illustrator

Tokyo based illustrator, designer

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