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Plate III · The Region

Asia

The part of the directory where the house is more often the exhibit than the container.

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By country

Ordered by weight of entries. Japan is not close.
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Where I would start

Three houses, three countries, one habit of mind.
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Notes for the region

Half the good houses here are shown by appointment, in a group, at a fixed hour. Write from home before you book the flight — Singapore's Baba House and Ahmedabad's Calico both turn away perfectly polite people who arrived on the day.

Shoes come off more often than not, so wear something you can manage standing on one leg. Photography is refused far more widely than in Europe, and I have stopped resenting it; you look harder when you cannot take it away.

Rotations, not exhibitions. Japanese collections change with the season by design, so the bowl you crossed the world for may be resting. Check the current display before you commit a morning.