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"Four Seasons Tokyo\nA Canadian Design Team Creates an Oasis in the Bustling City\nToronto-based George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg designed a small yet serene luxury hotel on the lower floors of an existing glass office tower by Tokyo's PCP Design Team.\n\nThe Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi combines a metropolitan setting with a cloistered feel.\nIn the transfer lobby, \"we had the chance to create a grand gesture, which I think everybody expects when they go into a hotel,\" Pushelberg says. The floor lamps are by Ralph Lauren Home.\nGuests first arrive through \"a very simple but gentle entrance.\"\nDisplayed on stands in the lobby lounge, red Zulu hats become works of art and serve to counterbalance the stark lines of the stone slabs and wood wall panels. \"We saw a grouping of those hats at a shop and filed the idea away for some future project,\" Yabu notes. Sofa fabric, Larsen.\nFor the restaurant, Ekki, the designers employed an unusual device to temper the strong geometry of the space: a large pair of disembodied hands that once belonged to a Buddha statue from Burma. \"We found them in Miami, of all places,\" Pushelberg explains.\nIn the bar area, as in some other parts of the hotel, the designers had to surmount a less-than-desirable view\u2014in this case, the tracks of the famed bullet train. The solution was a translucent screen made of white onyx laminated on glass and framed in metal.\nA guest room is furnished with soft bedding in neutral tones. The floor-to-ceiling windows have wood-framed screens made of glass-laminated fabric. Sheer draperies also help to filter light and turn the focus inward. The floor lamp is from Holly Hunt.\nA curvilinear wall was built to hide a structural column in a one-bedroom suite. Placed along the curve are two terra-cotta sculptures by Axel Cassel. The chair fabric is by Osborne &amp;amp; Little. The bed throw is by Larsen. The leather-clad floor lamp is from Ralph Lauren Home.\nA bath with glass sinks looks out over the lights of Tokyo. \"Our mission was to create an intimate, exclusive oasis,\" says George Yabu. \"We developed a design scheme of polar opposites, or yin and yang, one that reflects energy and yet solitude, peace and productivity.\"\n\nSee more Bathrooms \u00BB"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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