citylikeyou — 808 Lounge — Tokyo by Mayumi Yamase

Tokyo / Bar

Hawaian inspired tiny tiki bar, just a round corner form Shimokitazawa Station. Super nice decoration / owners personal skateboard collection, wired plants etc. Best Mojito in Tokyo!

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808 Lounge, 2-23-6 Kitazawa, Setagaya , Tokyo, Japan

Artist

Current city: Tokyo

mayumiyamase.com

Mayumi Yamase is an artist living and working in Tokyo. Her work whether a drawing, a painting or in 3D-form is composed of colours and organic forms. How the space is occupied with these colours and shapes helps to unfold unexpected forms organically grown like a plants and living like organs and a unique dialogue between them. Mayumi has exhibited pieces in London, Singapore and numerous times in throughout Japan alongside commissioned work for Comme des Garçons.

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