Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Design Team: TORAFU ARCHITECTS

Area: 300 m²

Year: 2026

Construction: D.BRAIN

Lighting Design: BRANCH LIGHTING DESIGN

Wooden Furniture: Kojiro Kitada

Plants: TOO GARDEN

Photography: Keishin Horikoshi

Design Features: TOM WOOD SHIBUYA occupies a street-level space in Tokyo and is the Norwegian jewellery brand's second flagship store in Japan. In a district saturated with movement and visual information, the shop is not treated as a sealed display box. A portal-like frame gives the entrance a clear civic presence, allowing the street, the interior and the brand's restrained material language to meet in a single view.

Beyond the threshold, the plan turns around a 7.2-metre glass showcase. It is both the principal display surface and the measure that organises circulation, inviting visitors to move around the jewellery and encounter it from changing distances. An existing off-centre column is embraced by a stainless-steel counter rather than concealed, transforming a structural constraint into a pause within the route.

Full-height glass cases line the wall, with their hardware carefully suppressed so the jewellery appears against a calm, continuous background. A lounge sits beside the sales floor. Kojiro Kitada's timber seating, inspired by fallen trees in Scandinavian forests, brings warmth to the bright field of metal and glass. Browsing, conversation and fitting can overlap without dividing movement from rest.

Archive drawers and the TOM WOOD LAB occupy the rear of the store. Through openings and glazed partitions, repair, engraving and resizing become visible parts of the customer experience. Professional equipment, stainless-steel worktables and purpose-made lighting are not entirely relegated backstage; they make the culture of craft, care and long-term use legible within the retail environment.

The palette develops the tactile character of earlier TOM WOOD stores through locally made elements. Sandblasted concrete, mirror-polished and hairline stainless steel, high-transparency glass, pine and oak produce a restrained but layered interior. Rather than competing with Shibuya through spectacle, TORAFU ARCHITECTS inserts a bright, fluid interval of stillness in which architecture, display and service express the brand's next chapter together.

Design Team: TORAFU ARCHITECTS was founded in Tokyo in 2004 by architects Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro. Suzuno studied at Tokyo University of Science and Yokohama National University before working with Coelacanth K&H and Kerstin Thompson Architects in Melbourne. Kamuro studied at Meiji University and worked at Jun Aoki & Associates. The two founders continue to lead the practice together.

The studio approaches a wide field of work through architectural thinking, spanning buildings, interiors, exhibitions, products, spatial installations and film. It does not assign importance according to scale. Instead, movement, use and relationships between objects become the basis of spatial structure, allowing furniture, display systems, interiors and architecture to be developed through a shared logic.

Representative works include TEMPLATE IN CLASKA, NIKE 1LOVE, House in Kohoku, airvase, Gulliver Table and Big T. Light Loom received the Grand Prize of the 2011 Elita Design Award, while airvase entered the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2015. TOM WOOD SHIBUYA continues the studio's sustained retail research, using precise detailing, circulation and the scale of objects to let a brand experience unfold gradually.