【新居大公開】前澤邸ルームツアー（リビング編） [ENG SUBS] First Look Into MZ’s New Living Room
Hello everyone, I’m Maezawa. I actually moved in Tokyo about six months ago, and today I’m in my new house. I thought I’d take the camera and give you a room tour of my new house. Well, the room is quite spacious, so today I’d like to show you the living room first. Let me show you around. Follow me! MZ: Here is the living room. Yozo: The living room is spacious. Yes, it’s already the living room, but it’s hard to tell how big it is on camera. Even from this angle, it’s still hard to tell, but it’s about 170 square meters. So 170m square in tsubo… in jyo size, that’s about 100 jyo in Japanese measurement. so the living is approximately 100 jyo. To explain it simply, the sofa area is large, and there are two sofa areas, one here and one here. Okay, let’s start with this sofa area. This bright red sofa is made of alpaca fabric, or should I say wool, and it was a sofa set by Jean Royer, a designer who was active in France around 1950. This is also a set. This is like this, when you sit on it, it’s like a stool You use it like this. I bought this in France I recently bought it, but it’s made in 1950 or something This red alpaca upholstery is exactly as it was at the time, which means it’s an original fabric. This sofa made by Jean Royer in the 1950s with it’s original fabric, and the title of this sofa is Polar Bear sofa. If you look at it from the back you can understand The sofa looks like a polar bear lying on ice. That’s why it got the name Polar Bear. This sofa is one of my favorite sofas for a long time. It’s quite difficult to find a good sofa to match this spacious room. Well, I really like vintage furniture, so I like old things, especially from the 1950s or as people say in the US, the ‘mid-centuries’ I like European and French designers in particular Jean Royer is one of them, but I have quite a few sets by him. In addition to red, I also have white, black, green, and dark brown. I have a lot of different ones. MZ: Do you want to know how much they cost? Yozo: Yes, please. Well, I won’t tell you the prices for all the furniture but for this sofa, about 500 million yen It was about 3 million euros Assuming the rate was 160 yen, that’s about 480 million yen. Anyway, it’s extremely rare to find original pieces in such good condition. I own several sets of them, but this is the first time I’ve been able to get them in such good condition. Yozo: Is this from an auction? MZ: No, I purchased this from a gallery. It was owned by only one owner, and that owner purchased it in the 1950s and used it with care for nearly 70 years. I thought it was really beautiful and was amazed. This table and this table as well, they are by Jean Royer. These tables are super cute, right? The shape of this table top is hard to put into words. I love it so much I have four of them in different colors. There aren’t many tables shaped like this. I also put this glass on for protection. These small pieces put together, is also part of the design. Yozo: The glass wasn’t already part of the furniture from the beginning? No, it originally didn’t have the glass top. I think Jean Royer probably wanted people to enjoy it as it is, but it’s very delicate and fragile so I put the protection on. And this as well. I can put drinks on this. It’s also by Royer. It’s cute, right? If you look closely at it, you’ll see that it’s scratched like this. Normally, if someone didn’t know what it was, they’d have to return it. I love these scars. The more scratches it has, I feel that it was really used and loved. It looks cute. Yozo: How much did it cost? MZ: Oh this? Not much, only about a few million yen Oh and this! This is a bouquetin, an animal that lives in the Alps. It’s the same family as gazelles and things like that. It’s amazing. The male bouquetin’s horns grow out and look like this. It’s a really cool carving. I’ll be talking about it a lot later so I’ll explain it first but this is by a French sculptor. A man named François-Xavier Lalanne, and his wife Claude Lalanne is also a sculptor. They are both quite famous as sculptors. and I think they were born around 1920. So this sculpture of a bouquetin by François-Xavier Lalanne is made out of gilt bronze, so it has gold on top of the bronze. I think this was made in the 90s but the patina adds a great character to it. Yozo: What is patina? MZ: Patina means aging. I don’t have much new furniture, everything in my house is vintage. Thinking about the history and background of how they have been used is fun for me. New designs are cool too, but I’m more into the vintage pieces. Yozo: Is this just an ornament? MZ: Well yes, it’s a sculpture. It’s really heavy. It’s so heavy that you can’t lift it up by yourself. François-Xavier Lalanne, please remember his name. This cost about 2 million euros.. That’s about 300 million yen. Lalanne is a sculptor who makes a lot of animal sculptures. And you can see a bit of Calder here. There is an exhibition on at Azabudai Hills. Please have a look if you have time. Alexander Calder was active in the 1940s, and I think the best period was in the 50~60s. The pieces are very cute. There are many museums that have them exhibited. When the wind blows, it spins like this. The art piece is called Ostrich. It looks like an ostrich. This is also quite old. I have a lot of Calder pieces. Ones that are small like this, ones that dangle from ceilings and spins around This is none other than Jean Prouvé. He’s a French artist. I’m sure you all know him. A few years back, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo held a Jean Prouvé exhibition 1/3 to 1/4 of the Jean Prouvé art pieces exhibited there were the ones I own and I lent them out for that exhibition. I can’t remember if I also lent this one out then but this is also an old piece. It’s really comfortable. It’s really cute. You cann see that it’s patinated in many places, and the The place to rest your hands has the best character to it And this lighting. I’m sure you can guess whose it is by now. This is by Jean Royer. All these curves a re very cute. It takes a lot of time just explaining about one sofa. We’re still only halfway there. These are my sheep that welcomes everyone into my living room. This is also by the same sculptor as the bouquetin, François-Xavier Lalanne. This one is from around 1986, and this one from around 2000. This sheep is one of Lalanne’s most famous pieces. This part is made out of bronze. This part is made of real wool. It’s really funny because it has wheels at the bottom. When I get back home, these sheep are welcoming me. This table here in the middle is one of my favorite tables. It is by you guessed it, Jean Prouvé. I think everyone’s seen these legs. I think recently, Vitora has released reproducts of Jean Prouvé pieces. So it’s famous in different places now. This is a rare table. It was part of a series that was made in Congo, Africa, for an airline company called Air Congo, so there are probably dozens of them. There is only a limited number or sets left, and the fact that it still exists and is in this condition is extremely rare. Is it expensive? Yeah, this one is also about 100 million yen. And on this table, I have an artwork by Willem de Kooning. Do you all know de Kooning? Well, this is what he is famous for. This sculpture is from around the 70s. There are various series of this, and the bigger ones are even bigger, but this one is also a huge title. It’s all bronze. I think he molds it by using his hand like this, and he is famous for his abstract work, mainly of women. But they don’t really look like women because of the abstract work. All these small items like this are by Georges Jouve, a French ceramic artist. This has Jouve’s sign in it. This looks like my signature. It says JOUVE. J-O-U-V-E It doesn’t look like much but it is quite valuable. And this shelf, this amazing shelf. Looks familiar, right? These stars and the material. Jean Royer. This is also a console from the 1950s. The pieces on top is by Hans Coper. He is also a ceramic artist. He has a very unique taste He makes a lot of ceramics with a distinctive shape, and I really like that so I like to collect his work. Yozo: Do you choose each item yourself? Of course, they haven’t been selling them as a set. I’ve accumulated this collection over the years buying them from different places like auctions and galleries. This artwork is the main feature of this living room. this is Picasso’s work. I think it was 1930? This work was painted on April 2, 1932. Yes, it was almost 100 years ago. I don’t know what it is, but it’s probably a woman. I think it looks nice with the Hans Coper works below it. This is my Pierre Jeanneret area. Jeanneret has been seen a lot in different places these days think a lot of people know about him. I think that there was a project called Chandigarh in India, which Le Corbusier and Jeanneret jointly established And there was a project like building a town, building a school, building a hospital, etc. The person who was working with Le Corbusier was Pierre Jeanneret. Le Corbusier mainly worked on buildings, and Pierre Jeanneret was in charge of, well, furniture, and at that time he was making furniture like this. I don’t know if these pieces were actually there, but Jeanneret is good at using this kind of wood. He uses wood like teak. And also rattan. It’s very delicate, so it easily breaks, and you have to repair and repair it. It’s not an original, it’s a restored one, but what’s interesting is that this guy just writes down the serial number without any hesitation. However, the thing with Pierre Jeanneret is that his works are made of wood, and it’s easy to remake so there are a lot of fakes out there. Even at auctions, there are a lot of fakes, so when you buy something, you have to go to a gallery that you really trust or make sure that it has a Provenance, something to check its origin. If you don’t know who used it and where, it’s dangerous. I also failed a few times, and when I buy something and leave it there, when someone who knows more about it comes to my house, they tell me that I was tricked. Be careful and buy it. Let me open the window a bit. This area by the window is like a Jean Prouvé festival. He was making a house and these works are part of that. This chair is called a Kangaroo chair, it is very rare. It’s a little different from the one I showed earlier. People often get excited about the legs. Remember the table from Congo in Africa? This table was made at the same time as that table This was also used in Congo in Africa. This table was made from African wood. I’m not sure but maybe the wood was procured locally I don’t know, but it’s a really sturdy tree, and it’s heavy, and it has a lot of mass, so if you hold it. You can feel how heavy it is if you hold it. This is also Calder. It’s light and thin. It moves every time someone walks passed. This silver stool is Jean Prouvé, it’s very comfortable. It’s so light that you can hold it with one hand. It’s all made of steel. It’s original. You can see it’s really dirty. Usually, people would find it disgusting but I like this kind of thing. It’s patina. It’s changed over time. So many people have sat here and I think, "I have to use it with love.” This isn’t Prouvé, it’s Serge Mouille. Well, this one was created by the same person who made so many of those kinds of lights in France. Prouvé. This one is all made of aluminum other than the handle. It’s very light. This console is quite rare, hear how light the sound is too. This Prouvé shelf is also rare. Question – whose is this? This slightly dirty look, this ceramic feel, and the sculptural feel. I explained it earlier, right? It’s Hans Coper. Isn’t this bird cute? It’s Giacometti. It’s really heavy. Shun: There’s a lot of animals. Giacometti has a lot of animal sculptures. Oh I forgot about this one, this lighting. It’s about 2.5m long This is Jean Prouvé’s lighting, it came with the Congo tables. It swings around quite far. From here to all the way around here. Its very cute. I love this one so much that I own two of them. The picture you see behind is quite big, it’s by Albert Oehlen. Oehlen is a German artist, and this piece is how old? It’s probably from the 70’s… No no sorry it’s a work from 1989. Albert Oehlen still exists. He often paints abstract drawings but this one is of a living room perhaps. I had been looking for this desk for quite some time before finally finding it. It’s collaboration work between Charlotte Perriand and Jeanneret, and it was made in 1947, so it’s quite an old one. The drawers are interesting It’s so old I’m worried it’ll fall out and crumble. The wood looks like it’s made out of pinewood but it’s so thick I wonder how many centimeters it is. It’s probably 5~6cm thick. Perriand has many tables in various sizes, but this is the roughest and thickest table I’ve ever seen. This was made in 1940. This is the Prouvé Direction Chair. Nice color, right? It’s cute. This is not the original, but it’s been reupholstered. I don’t think there are many with its original material still used. I think a lot of Japanese people know Arne Jacobsen He is a Danish person. This one is also from the late 1950s and an original piece. I don’t often buy Scandinavian pieces but the leather on this was in really good condition. The patina on this gives out great taste, don’t you think? It looks like I work on this desk but nope, never. That’s about it? Hey, have you seen the rug? There are no rugs that fit a 170m square room so I custom-ordered one. The color is also custom-made. A little brown. Oh yes, can’t forget, the piece hanging above this fireplace is a Japanese author. He has passed away but it is by a Japanese artist named On Kawara, who was active in New York for a long time. It’s interesting because he paints the date of the day he painted it So he painted this one on May 1, 1987 He doesn’t paint something big like this everyday, sometimes he paints dates on a canvas as small as an A4 page. And on some days, he paints two pieces. So, if a person owns two pieces of paintings with the same date, it is very rare. This is the biggest size that he has painted and there are probably on 20~30 pieces out there. The date itself has no meaning whatsoever. I wanted to find a reason or a good story behind the date but couldn’t think of anything. Perfect fit for this space too. On Kawara painted dates from the 1960s to the early 2000s so it’s been about 40 years, so it’s not every day, but about once every three days. For 40 years, he had been doing the same thing for 40 years just writing the date on the canvas, and he only started to get recognition for that work 20 years after he began. He did the same thing for 20 years, then finally gained recognition with his artwork. I really like this piece, and other than black, there are red and blue canvases. It comes in all sorts of sizes, so I’ve collected quite a few. If you have several pieces in consecutive dates, that’s rare. MZ: Do you have any questions? Yozo: Do you spend a lot of time in the living room? Oh yeah, that’s a good question. Well, I’m here sometimes. Yozo: You already live here, right? MZ: Yeah, I moved in about the beginning of this year, so it’s been about half a year now. Yozo: How is it? I mean, home is where you make it. It has its unique qualities that only skyscraper mansions have like your ears ringing in the elevator, and I was concerned if I would get sick from being on a high level. I was worried about a lot of things, but when I finally moved in I can’t hear any of the busy sounds of the city below, and the only things I would hear are the loud sirens on ambulances and firetrucks. I can also go outside in the terrace, but that can be for another room tour video. Yozo: We just looked at the living room today but how many rooms are there in total? MZ: Ummm…. how many rooms? Hmm… There are about 11 or 12 toilets, I know that. Ones I haven’t used before as well. And the living room is 170 m square… Let’s not show the whole room in the one shot, it’s too big. I showed it in another video but there is also a gym and pool I’d like to make a video that gives a thorough introduction for those rooms soon. Yozo: Are you usually sitting on that sofa when you’re in this room? MZ: Yes, usually I’ll be lying down like this and be on my iPhone. Does this shot look good from afar? Yozo: It isn’t too spacious? MZ: At first when I purchased it, I thought maybe I bought a house too big but after bringing in all my favorite furniture I got used to it. Yozo: It’s like a museum. MZ: I really do like art and furniture. Shun: Is this only a glimpse of the vintage furniture collection you have? MZ: I have much more furniture, enough for another dozen houses. I love collecting furniture though. If I have the chance, of course I want to use them. Yozo: Is the house complete? MZ: Not yet. I’m living here but still fixing up some places. Rooms I don’t use or want to change up the design, I kind of work on them bit by bit. It is a home I purchased but there are restrictions and things I can and can’t do. It’s a skyscraper building so I can’t touch the frames surrounding the glass windows or I have to leave a clear space for the evacuation path or I have to have equipment in certain places for safety. There are restrictions but I’m finding fun ways to renovate the house within those restrictions. Shun: When will it be completed? MZ: It’s still going to take a year. Change lots of things, the art will change again too. I’m not even in a state where I can invite people over yet. I invited people for the first time recently, but once things calm down a little bit, I’ll start calling my friends over. Yozo: Your friends weren’t set back? MZ: Yeah, they were. Yozo: It’s hard not to. MZ: I know. I have other rooms and spaces I want to show you all but that can be for another video The dining room, and also the entrance area is also cool. And the elevator space, which I’ve played around with a lot of art, and the pool. I’d like to introduce you to the gym again. Yozo: I got lost just by coming up from the first floor entrance. There are about 7 entrances. There are two main entrances, and the others in about 5 locations. so there are still a lot of interesting areas to show. MZ: It’ll be nice if we can take a video once a month. Yozo: Yes, if there are rooms ready to show. We’ll start doing it gradually. So that was the first tour of my house in Tokyo, starting with the living room. Hope you all enjoyed it. In addition to the living room, I will continue to introduce various other rooms in the future. I would appreciate it if you could subscribe to the channel. That’s it for the living room version. See you again. Thank you
今年引っ越したばかり前澤自邸を大公開！ルームツアー第一弾の今回は【リビング編】です。
美術館と見紛うほどの高価な家具やアートが盛りだくさん。インテリアやアート好きのみなさんは特に必見です！お楽しみください！
Follow MZ around as he introduces you to his new house!
First of the room tour series is his ‘Living Room’.
So much art and vintage furniture everywhere that it can be mistaken for a museum.
If you are an art collector or an interior design enthusiast, do not miss this!
Enjoy as MZ takes you around his house!