YKK Consultant Kei Kagami played a unique role in the development of the Showroom. Trained in architecture before working with celebrated architect Kenzo Tange, he designed the entire space giving it an industrial and raw aesthetic as a reflection of YKK’s identity. “People have a certain impression of YKK as something very industrial” rightly says Kei, “and what’s wrong with that? My idea was that we should be proud of our industrial nature and we should push that identity.” Inspired by a metal factory, Kei filled the place with perforated metal shutters, movable glass cabinets suspended by crane-like steel rods, providing that general look - the iron and rusty colours, the bolts, the iron girders - one would experience in an actual factory.