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Time & Style

Traditional Japanese technique evolved for modern daily life.

Tokyo and Asahikawa · JapanEst. 1992Solid wood · Natural fibre · Bronze · Textile
Time & Style Amsterdam flagship — washi lantern under arched windows (source: timeandstyle.com)
Image courtesy of Time & Style Official Time & Style Amsterdam flagship ↗ Checked 11 AUG 2026

The house

Time & Style is the furniture and daily-life brand of Prestige Japan, designing furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles and objects as one environment rather than separate categories.

Its work evolves Japanese techniques for contemporary use, with furniture made through an integrated process at the Time & Style Factory in Higashikawa, within the Asahikawa furniture-making region of Hokkaido.

Long collaborations with architects including Kengo Kuma and Peter Zumthor connect the factory's material knowledge to furniture first developed for museums, hotels, workplaces and other architectural projects.

Modern daily objects, finished with the patience of inherited technique.

A position in the world

Why this house holds attention.

Time & Style has developed an international audience by evolving Japanese craft for contemporary architecture rather than presenting tradition as nostalgia. Its integrated Hokkaido factory, five-storey Amsterdam flagship, Milan presence, Time & Style edition partnership with Boffi | DePadova and long collaborations with Kengo Kuma and Peter Zumthor give the house an unusual position between manufacturer, design publisher and complete interiors culture.

Shop the room

Furniture that keeps the room quiet.

The MA Sofa uses a low profile, generous planes and carefully controlled softness to hold the room without dominating it.

Kengo Kuma MA Sofa and ottoman in a light timber interior

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Hand-planing solid oak at the Time & Style factory, Higashikawa, Hokkaido (source: timeandstyle.com)
Atelier Zumthor Working Table — Time & Style

Selected by Objena

Why this house, here.

Our editorial position, separated clearly from the house’s official record.

01 · The relationship

Objena follows Time & Style because the work rewards slow attention and supports quiet Australian interiors without disappearing into generic minimalism. The factory record makes production and material decisions unusually legible, while the Amsterdam and Milan environments show how furniture, light and daily objects can be presented as one accountable house. Objena is seeking a relationship but does not claim appointment or Australian availability before written agreement.

02 · What to notice

Look at transitions: edge thickness, timber selection, joinery, upholstery tension and the point where a machine process returns to the hand. Then look outward: Kengo Kuma's furniture changes the interval between body and room, while Peter Zumthor's objects retain the architectural situations that first made them necessary.

Material record

  1. 01 Prestige Japan was established in 1992 and develops the Time & Style brand across furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles and daily objects.
  2. 02 The Higashikawa factory carries out processes from log purchasing, sawing and drying through assembly, upholstery, polishing and finishing.
  3. 03 Time & Style describes an approximately thirty-person factory team and a small-lot, build-to-order system that supports detailed dimensions and finish variations.
  4. 04 The collaboration with Kengo Kuma began around the 2009-2010 Nezu Museum project and has extended across more than thirty architectural projects according to Time & Style's published record.
  5. 05 The Peter Zumthor collection, announced in 2022, reconstructs furniture developed across approximately fifty years of architectural work.
  6. 06 Time & Style opened its five-storey Amsterdam flagship in a protected 1888 building in 2017.
  7. 07 The Time & Style edition partnership with Boffi | DePadova places Japanese solid-wood furniture and washi lighting within an international interior system.

Selected chronology

  1. 1992 Prestige Japan is established.
  2. 1997 The first Time & Style Home showroom opens in Tokyo.
  3. 1999 Time & Style exhibits at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan and ICFF in New York.
  4. 2008 Time & Style Factory is established in Higashikawa, Hokkaido, within the Asahikawa furniture-making region.
  5. 2009-2010 The Nezu Museum cafe project begins Time & Style's long collaboration with Kengo Kuma; the NC Chair becomes its first furniture result.
  6. 2017 Time & Style Amsterdam opens across five floors of a protected 1888 building on Marnixstraat.
  7. 2019 The Amsterdam flagship presents Kengo Kuma: Furniture that blended into the surroundings.
  8. 2020 Time & Style announces its partnership with Boffi | DePadova and establishes an in-house woodworking technology research institute.
  9. 2022 The Peter Zumthor collection is introduced internationally and Time & Style Milan opens in Brera.

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The MA sofa and ottoman by Kengo Kuma, leather cushions on slender steel legs, in a light oak-floored interior — Courtesy Time & Style
House essay · 03 Aug 2026

Time & Style — from log to lacquer under one roof

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Official record

Questions, answered at source.

Each answer is distilled from the house’s own published material. Follow the source beneath every answer for the full context.

01 What makes Time & Style more than a furniture brand?

Time & Style is a brand of Prestige Japan creating furniture, lighting, tableware, towels and other tools for daily life. Its showrooms present those categories as complete environments, while the stated design concept is to evolve Japanese techniques for modern living rather than reproduce tradition as decoration.

Official source · Time & Style about
02 Where and how is Time & Style furniture made?

Furniture is made at the Time & Style Factory in Higashikawa, within the Asahikawa furniture-making region of Hokkaido. The integrated operation covers log purchasing, sawing, drying, cutting, assembly, upholstery, polishing and finishing, using machinery for repeatable accuracy and handwork where material judgement matters.

Official source · Time & Style factory
03 How does Time & Style work with architects?

Time & Style has manufactured furniture developed with architects for specific buildings and then, where appropriate, reconstructed selected pieces for wider production. Its Kengo Kuma collaboration began around the Nezu Museum project, while the Peter Zumthor collection gathers furniture developed across roughly fifty years of architectural work.

Official source · Time & Style architect collections
Source · Time & Style · AboutChecked 11 AUG 2026