For those former guests and architectural buffs who lamented the demolition of the iconic Hotel Okura Tokyo, they can soon preserve a piece of it in their homes.
Hotel officials plan to sell on the Internet some of the furniture and fixtures used in the guest rooms and restaurants during the main building's 53-year history, with the proceeds going to charity. [...]
The 11-story main building, which opened in May 1962 [...], was called “a masterpiece of Japan’s modernism architecture.”
— ajw.asahi.com
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I need to find a way to get in on this, if a building and its furnishings were ever to be considered a distillation of an era, the Okura is tops. A shame they have to tear it down, nothing we could do today could ever speak the way this building does.
Here's the link to the auction page:
http://www.hotelokura.co.jp/tokyo/events/charity/
It's all in Japanese, but you can try Google-translating it in Chrome.
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