Le Labo's New Kyoto Flagship Is Inside of a 145-Year-Old Home

Le Labo's new Kyoto flagship store and cafe was designed by architect Jo Nagasaka to adapt a 145-year-old traditional townhouse, called a "machiya" in Japanese. Nagasaka, the principal of Schemata Architects, brings the fragrance brand's industrial sensibilities in alignment with the context of the heritage site, preserving the Japanese identity imbued in the bones of the building.The facade is intentionally conservative, in honor of the surrounding city of streets of old Kyoto. On the adaptive ...