Home fashion designer Naomi Iwasaki Hoff adds splashes of color to a Tokyo dining table with silk brocade placements and napkin rings that she created from an antique kimono. The lacquered bowls are also antique; tables and chairs, contemporary Italian. The art is an original Yoshito Takahashi painting on handmade paper he calls "mashi."
At Home With Japanese Design: Accents, Structure and Spirit, 1990















