TOKYO -- If global design magazines offer any guide, there is a widespread international view that Japanese people live in homes with monochromatic color palettes and little or no furniture.
Interior design is adapting to the circumstances of the post-pandemic world

The shape of things to come? Polygon House, Karuizawa, Nagano prefecture, Makoto Yamaguchi, 2003. (Courtesy of Makoto Yamaguchi/Photo © Koichi Torimura)
TOKYO -- If global design magazines offer any guide, there is a widespread international view that Japanese people live in homes with monochromatic color palettes and little or no furniture.