From edible delights to architecture, Sfera creates for all facets of life.

Sfera presents its latest creation: a new range of HIGASHI (sweets).

Sfera has designed a range of products to cater for the entire lifestyle sphere. That is, items relating to fashion, food and living, as well as to sound, space and environment. In addition to products ranging from furniture to kimono design, Sfera has designed exhibition spaces for the Milano Salone, along with various events.

The latest HIGASHI project sees Sfera creating for the first time a product based on food. Blessed with the full cooperation of Kyoto's Kagizen Yoshifusa, Sfera has based its HIGASHI on a form that is both appropriate and sensitive in its representation of Japanese culture, tradition and aesthetic values, also summing up the beauty associated with the four seasons. Combining the techniques handed down through generations of local craftspeople with the talents of current designers from abroad presented a considerable challenge.

Following a tradition of expressing the changes in season whilst at the same time pursuing new discoveries, Sfera used as a source of inspiration the keywords "nature" and "to sense the four seasons". Three years on, and after much trial and error, Sfera has arrived at monet. The shape represents the floating form of a lotus flower. Just like the lasting impression the flower leaves as it gently wavers on the surface of the water, you can enjoy the monet's graceful and soft forms combined with the manner in which it melts on the tongue.

Claesson Koivisto Rune[designer]

This project recalls the experience and the special feeling of opening a box of those Japanese sugar cookies, opening the wrapping paper, seeing those beautiful little things inside, picking up one of them carefully with the tips of the fingers, and finally putting it in the mouth and it melts on the tongue slowly spreading the subtle sweetness inside the mouth. It is such a precious moment and we hope that everyone who is going to have these boxes of sweets will experience it and feel that happiness.

→ Sfera PR

Kagizen

Founded in the 18th century, Kyoto wagashi shop Kagizen has since old times passed its techniques down from generation to generation. With the choicest ingredients, the higashi (dry sweets) and namagashi (raw sweets) celebrate the flavour of time, reflecting the seasonal characteristics and traditions unique to Kyoto. Impervious to the latest trends, the long-established store has honoured its traditions by perfecting its art to further enhance its standing as one of the city's leading traditional shops.