I discovered Pacific Furniture Service while browsing through the SlowDownJoe webshop, but hadn’t realized the extent of their interior design work and large product line until very recently. Their site, while a little troublesome to navigate at first, contains some of the best interiors and examples of great design that I’ve seen in a while. Some of the goods are available for sale through a convenient online shop if you happen to know of a Japanese proxy, but for the rest of us there’s just an awful lot of inspiring content. From what I gather, in Japan Pacific Furniture Service run a sort of design consultation service where they’ll go in and put together spaces for their clients, a service which seems, from the results, to be well worth the money. Their aesthetic is mostly quite minimalistic, but not to the point where the spaces are too sparse. Everything (as has been perfected in Japanese design) appears to be in its right place, giving most of the spaces a comfortable and welcoming feel. If you’ve enjoyed browsing through some of Truck’s interiors and furnitures in the past, Pacific Furniture Service is definitely worth your time to browse. Fair warning though, once you get the hang of the navigation, you’ll be on there for a while.

- CK

Criada por dois irmãos, um deles fundador da Superdenim, a Slowdownjoe é uma daquelas lojas em que apetece ter tudo. Apesar de estar apenas presente no ambiente virtual, a loja tem uma das melhores selecções de produtos que já alguma vez observei. Desde peças para a casa e utilitários até malas e acessórios de escritório, a Slowdownjoe apresenta marcas oriundas da Europa, Estados Unidos e Japão. Gosto especialmente dos candeeiros de aspecto industrial da Pacific Furniture Service, das malas da The Superior Labor e John Chapman, dos bancos da Phil Procter, das escovas da Turner & Harper e dos cosméticos da Baxter of California.

Texto: Álvaro Tavares Ramos