HTSI, Ramdane Touhami
HTSI,
Ramdane Touhami
Photographer: Edvinas Bruzas
Photo Director: Katie Webb
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Commissioned by HTSI
“Ramdane Touhami has woken up for the first time at Sneakerbox House, his new home in central Tokyo. At 10am he is managing a series of micro-calamities whose severity only he can possibly appreciate. The Bakelite wheels of a battered 1930s office chair, designed and once owned by his great hero Gio Ponti, are digging fractionally too deeply into a mountain-themed rug of Touhami’s own design. The turquoise switch for the 1960s Italian wall lamps in the office is, he has now decided, sitting at a faintly unnatural distance from the lights themselves. A trio of hardback books, angled to resemble the house itself, have found their way to the wrong end of an immense dining table that, rather like Odysseus’s bed, has been built into a foundation pillar of the building. A sense of obsession, in the fundamental structure of the house, in the microscopic detail of every interior and in the day-to-day life it invites, is everywhere.”
— Leo Lewis
