- 2025 Gold Prize
- From Dining Space
GARDEN RESTAURANT TOKUGAWAEN
Project Description
Located in Tokugawaen, one of Nagoya's most popular tourist spots, Garden Restaurant Tokugawaen provides a unique culinary experience.
With a location overlooking a Japanese garden associated with the Owari Tokugawa family, guests can enjoy “Japanese-French cuisine” that blends French techniques with Japanese traditions, along with hearty Japanese hospitality.
The cuisine, which uses a wide variety of locally produced ingredients, is a masterpiece of craftsmanship.
We hope you enjoy the magnificent garden with its seasonal changes, such as cherry blossoms in the spring and autumn leaves in the fall.
The concept of “beauty in utility” exemplified by traditional Japanese folk crafts,
achieves the essential beauty of function by eliminating all that is unnecessary.
It is beautiful simply in its presence –a beauty in silence.
In comparison to this ideal of “ beauty in utility,” our store designs are far from complete.
No matter how much attention we devote to every detail, it will never be complete.
Our designs are only truly brought to life through the owner’s vision,the voices of the staff, the smiles of customers, and the unique atomosphere that emerges as the space is used over time.
This is a beauty that cannot be created by formality or the ego of a designer –it is a beauty co-created with the end users.
A space alone is incomplete.
This is the very ideal of “beauty in utility “ that Nakagawa Design aspires to realize and share with the world.
1975 Born in Nagoya.Japan.
1998 Graduated from Japan Designer Gakuin College and joined “Kamiya Design Office Ltd. And was promoted to Chief Designer two years later. and in 2001. became manager of the Design Department of the Tokyo Branch Office,
2005 Retired Kamiya Design Office Ltd. and established “Nakagawa Design Office”.
While working on store design mainly in Nagoya.
“Nakagawa Design Office” continues to work with an international perspective,
presenting works at the “Milano Salone del Mobile 2010” that combine traditional technique with contemporary design.
