IED Master, C/ Larra nº 14
Madrid, Spain
3 December 2008
The Cultural Observatory programme of the European Design Labs’08 will take place at IED Master. This time Shoji Ito, Design Director of MUJI Europe, is the protagonist.
Shoji Ito is, since 2006, the Design Director of MUJI for the products produced in Europe. The Japanese retail company is now 25 years old.
The first European store opened as a concession, in 1991 and today there are 15 shops in the UK - mostly in London, but also in Birmingham, Nottingham and Manchester - with 10 more in France, Sweden, Ireland, Germany and Italy.
It is opened also in New York (there’s already a concession in MoMA’s design shop, while Muji’s famous wall-mounted CD player is in the permanent collection).
Asia, meanwhile, has a handful of stores, but in Japan it’s different. Not counting the mini-kiosk versions in train stations, there are half a dozen branches, including the first, which opened in 1983 in Aoyama and is still there in its glory.
In Spain there are shops in Barcelona and Madrid, MUJI opens the second store in Madrid in February 2009.
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