Aēsop’s “Seven Rooms” will appear at PARK, a gallery space within SKAC (SKWAT KAMEARI ART CENTRE), located beneath the railway tracks between Ayase and Kameari stations on the JR Joban Line, from February 20 to March 1, 2026. Seven Rooms is a scenographic installation by Aēsop, unfolding as a continuous sequence, much like the set of a film.

Courtesy of Aēsop

The installation draws inspiration from the domestic spaces depicted in Yasujirō Ozu’s film Good Morning (1959). Each room reinterprets the form of the traditional Japanese home through Aēsop’s distinct perspective. Within these everyday settings, product packaging becomes architectural material, while objects themselves are placed among vintage furnishings, existing within carefully constructed contexts that define the spatial experience.

What stood out during the media preview was the way the space shifted like scenes within a film, accompanied by scent and tactility. Lighting and distance avoided overt explanation, instead allowing visitors’ own memories and physical perception to complete the experience. As a result, the products appeared not merely placed within the space, but integrated into its structural logic.

Images courtesy of Aēsop (Photography by Jonathan Leijonhufvud)


The installation consists of seven rooms, including a bathroom, private study, living room, sunroom, kitchen, workshop, and a seventh room conceived as a corridor. The corridor is positioned not simply as a passage, but as a threshold—an in-between space inviting pause and reflection.


Each room reveals its own distinct character. The bathroom, dedicated to body care, evokes the atmosphere of a public bath through antique furnishings and brass surfaces. Walls resembling soft bricks are in fact constructed from bars of soap, subtly releasing fragrance into the space.

The sunroom offers a quiet refuge filled with filtered light, featuring traditional screens, an Isamu Noguchi pendant lamp, and a daybed. Product labels form continuous surfaces across the walls, shaping the spatial atmosphere.

 The living room, devoted to tea and gathering, features pages from The Aēsop Book transformed into wallpaper, recalling scenes from Ozu’s cinematic world.

Images courtesy of Aēsop (Photography by Jonathan Leijonhufvud)


The private study resembles a collector’s room, where fragrance bottles take the place of shogi pieces, and product packaging forms the walls.

In the kitchen, ceramic plates rest carefully on a wooden tray, forming a quietly composed dining setting. The arrangement evokes traces of daily life, suggesting a moment just before or after a shared meal. On nearby shelves, Aesop’s Parsley Seed skincare products are arranged like condiments. Placed alongside ceramic and wooden tableware, they appear naturally integrated into the kitchen environment, presented as part of a lived domestic scene.

The workshop, meanwhile, presents stacked shipping boxes forming walls, with suspended sheets of paper casting geometric shadows across the space.


During the exhibition, a series of programs titled “Poetry of Everyday Life” will take place, including talks, workshops, and meditative experiences that deepen engagement with the installation.

A book exchange program also invites visitors to bring a personal book in exchange for a curated art book, extending the installation’s dialogue between objects and memory.

An original blended tea, created in collaboration with a neighboring café, further extends the experience into the sensory realm, allowing visitors to encounter the installation through taste as well as space.

Images courtesy of Aēsop (Photography by Jonathan Leijonhufvud)


Within this space beneath the railway tracks—an urban margin—Aēsop quietly reconstructs the architecture of everyday life. What emerges is not architecture as function, but space as something that contains time, memory, and atmosphere.

Products are not presented as isolated objects, but as elements embedded within the structure of living itself. Through their repositioning as walls, furnishings, and fragments of domestic presence, they reshape the viewer’s perception of both space and object.

Moving through the seven rooms, visitors encounter a sequence that exists between reality and fiction, revealing the subtle relationships between space, body, and memory. Seven Rooms offers an opportunity to reconsider everyday life through Aēsop’s spatial language.







ABOUT Aēsop
Founded in Melbourne in 1987, Aesop creates skincare, haircare, body care, fragrance, and home products with a focus on both function and sensory experience. The brand is also known for its distinct approach to store design, engaging architecture and culture to create immersive spatial environments around the world.