Craft and contrast

TANYA BUCHANAN DISCOVERS A WORLD OF BEAUTY. TRADITION AND DESIGN EXCELLENCE IN JAPAN.

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IT WAS THE KIND OF INVITATION that makes you reorganise your calendar and start packing immediately - a design tour of Japan with Lexus and multi-award winner Brahman Perera.

As well as being an ambassador for Lexus and the man behind the superb LANDMARK by Lexus pavilion for the Melbourne Cup Carnival, Brahman has won a number of Belle/Fanuli Interior Design Awards and is in demand for his original and bold work. Unbelievably, this was my first trip to Japan, and what an introduction! I arrived expecting elegance and precision – all grace and poise. What I didn't expect was how wondrous and moving the experience would be.