MONO JAPAN Amsterdam

MONO JAPAN is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft and design. It is an event and a platform devoted to sophisticated beauty grounded in tradition, enriched with contemporary thinking, and refined to perfection with uncompromising skills. MONO JAPAN represents the design that defies the gravity of the mundane and brings joy to the simplest rituals of every day.

MONO JAPAN started as an organization that introduces a carefully curated selection of modern Japanese artisanal products and makers to the European audience. Its activities consist of organizing a yearly artisanal design fair from products of Japanese craftspeople and companies as well as holding workshops, lectures to initiate and facilitate collaboration between Japanese and European creators.

The first MONO JAPAN fair took place in 2016. More than 70 Japanese participants have exhibited, most of them for the first time in Europe, and numerous collaborations between Japan and the Netherlands have been born.