AXISビル

飯倉片町で仕事をしていた頃に、近くにAXISビルができて、地下に吉左右という和食の店が入っていた。そこで昼食を取ることが多くなり、すぐに贔屓になった。始めの頃には田崎真也さんがソムリエをしていた時期もある。この店は今もうなくなったが、同じフロアに今も昔と変わらず続いている店がNUNOだ。
古くてモダンな和の布が揃っていて、三宅一生がひと頃よく好んで使っていたような独特の風合いのものを多く見ることができる。先日久しぶりにここを訪れてみたら、昔買ったのと同じコースターがまだ健在なのに感動して、しかも336円という安さだし、思わずいくつか買ってしまった。


When I was working in the area of Iigura-Katamachi many years ago, AXIS Building was built in the neighborhood and in its basement was a Japanese restaurant called Kisso. It soon became my favorite place and I used it for lunches quite frequently. In the early days, Shinya Tasahi was working there as sommelier. Kisso has gone now but a store continues to function in the same floor. It is NUNO which means fabric.
They have a good collection of old yet modern Japanese fabrics, such things like those that Issei Miyake used to love using. I stopped by the store the other day after a very, very long absence, and I was terrified to have found that they still carried the same fabric coasters I bought more than 2 decades ago and it is only 336 Yen. I could not stop buying some.