One-room resort Trunk Home contains Tokyo’s tiniest disco

Lodge model Trunk labored alongside design studio Tripster to create this boutique resort in Tokyo, which takes cues from conventional Japanese aesthetics – however unusually boasts its personal miniature nightclub.

Hidden away down a cobbled road in Tokyo’s buzzing Kagurazaka neighbourhood, Trunk Home has been created by the resort’s in-house design staff and domestically based mostly studio Tripster to have a residential really feel.

“The concept for Trunk Home was impressed by the salons present in Tokyo previously, the place artists and creatives would congregate – areas the place folks would share concepts and change ideas, the place tradition could possibly be fostered,” Hiroe Tanaka, artistic director of Trunk, instructed Dezeen.

“We wished to make a recent model of this idea which might accommodate trendy creatives out and in of Japan.”

The one-bedroom boutique resort takes over a 70-year-old geisha home: a property the place Japanese feminine entertainers, often known as geishas, would stay and follow the right way to dance, sing and make dialog with male shoppers.

Trunk’s design staff went about fully restoring and renovating the constructing to make it appropriate for visitor use.

Its focus is now a bright-red room that can function “the smallest disco in Japan”, full with a curved drinks bar, glittering disco ball and illuminated dance flooring. There’s additionally a karaoke machine out there to make use of.

Areas all through the remainder of the guesthouse –which may sleep as much as six when required – boast a way more pared-back aesthetic.

In the master suite, a single paintings overlooks a mattress perched upon an elevated wood platform, whereas the eating room options almost-black partitions and a protracted oak desk.

It seems by means of to a small, greenery-filled courtyard and open kitchen the place skilled cooks will cook-up conventional dishes for company.

There’s additionally a tiled toilet that is dominated by an enormous sq. bathtub crafted from cypress wooden, and a tearoom with tatami mats organized round a sunken fire.

Visitors can alternatively chill out within the sitting room, which is dressed with a chunky brown-leather couch.

The resort is exited by way of a small, split-level lobby with gray mortar partitions.

It has been designed to resemble a genkan – the recessed flooring space on the entrance of Japanese houses, the place guests can take away their sneakers earlier than getting into the home correct.

“The interiors of Trunk Home have been knowledgeable by our understanding of Tokyo’s cultural and architectural panorama: ever-changing, fluid, and a mix of custom and modernity,” mentioned Tanaka.

Trunk Home is supposed to supply a unique visitor expertise to the model’s current Trunk Lodge that opened in Shibuya in 2017.

Host to 15 rooms and a number of other vigorous public areas the place locals and worldwide guests can work together, the unique resort is supposed to assist company “really feel a part of Tokyo”.

Pictures is by Tomooki Kengaku.