Paumes

What has led us to write this post are some full-colour booklets that just looking at them is enough to make our eyes water and open our intellectual stomachs wide open like a slice of chocolate fondant: The Paumes.

There is a small studio in Tokyo dedicated to building bridges between East and West. And not only do they build them, but they cross them too, constantly. Hisashi Tokuyoshiphotographer and art director, and Fumie ShimojiThe company, agent and coordinator, represents, since 1996, European artists in Japan (designers, illustrators, craftsmen...), organises exhibitions to promote their work and sells their works through La Galerie Doux Dimanche.

With a poetic and original approach, these "palmos" of a book show us the interiors (and if you are Venezuelan don't think badly) of the houses of those most creative minds/families in Europe, becoming from the very moment they leave the printing press authentic bibles of interior design and decoration.  

After a tour of Paris, the studio travelled to Stockholm, London and San Francisco, so we now have at our disposal books to find out what the studios, children's rooms, kitchens, offices and flats for two in these cities are like. And you can tell by the photos, as the books are only available in Japanese... But believe us, these photos are the ones that do the most credit to the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words".

We like the "paumes" because they are different from the classic interior design and decoration magazines that show us prepared environments that have been retouched and retouched again with Photoshop to show us real environments where real people live. Creative, restless, authentic, unprejudiced people, lovers of colour, of originality, of handmade things, of decoration in the most playful sense of the word... Monapart people, yes. A huge source of inspiration.