Ricordi & Sfera
Eating food is important for everyone - that is the fact from which our story begins. Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital, is known for having cultivated aesthetics over the centuries.

Ricordi, a restaurant offering traditional regional food, opened in 1995. Enoteca Ricordi Sala V.I.P., a wine and food bar, opened in 2000. We use plates made from carefully selected materials, and are enthusiastic about tablewares and dining spaces. Our tableware range is based on the desire to provoke a range of life scenes during the dining period.

In 2003, we set up three more shops - "SeseragiSfera", a Japanese restaurant, "SferaShop", for new lifestyle suggestions, and "SferaExhibition/SferaArchive", an exhibition space with book and CD salons, an eating area and a tableware and comprehensive lifestyle zone. Designs for the shops were commissioned from Claesson Koivisto Rune, a Swedish architectural practice, who also undertook renovation of the "SferaBuilding".

Ricordi & Sfera move from table to space, and then to life itself. This highlights the traditions of the ancient capital, and of Japanese aesthetics more widely, but our deepest philosophy is to retain those traditional sensibilities while exploring a contemporary aesthetics. We hope to turn these concept into forms.