I want you to know the fun of choosing a picture frame

Do you have any tips on how to choose a frame?

Takayama: "Frames are all different depending on the work, and there are customer preferences. However, there are many ways to enjoy it. You can treat it as a piece of art, but if possible, I would like you to use it as furniture or interior decoration.  

For example, when you get married and go to pick out furniture for your new home, I think you'll have a lot of different opinions. Because it is something that will be used for a long time, even when it comes to choosing furniture, we choose it very carefully. The same goes for picture frames. ”

 Takayama: "Customers often say 'I'll leave it to you,' but when we ask them, "Is there any color you dislike?' we get a lot of responses, and everyone is very clear about what they dislike. Then, when we ask them to thoroughly list their dislikes, we get opinions like, 'I want it this way,' or 'I want it that way,' and for the first time, they are in line with us. That's what I like about it. We want our customers to buy things that they are satisfied with, and we want them to display those things.

Once a picture frame is made, it will normally last for 50 or 60 years unless it falls off. If that person has a child, and if that child gets married and has a child, they will still be in the house. That's why I want people to know the joy of choosing because it's something that will always be a decoration in your home, not just "anything goes". ”

Cafe bar "TWILLO"

The attached cafe bar "TWILLO". After choosing a picture frame, many people come here to relax. When you enter this space from the picture frame shop, you will feel as if you have entered another world, and you will be more impressed than you can imagine.

It is open from 12:00 noon, so please visit it together with the picture frame shop.

"Nayabashi TWILO" to connect the thoughts of "Kabuto Beer" reissued to the next generation.

A long-established picture frame store "Takayama picture frame store" is located along the Nayabashi river. The back of the shop is also a cafe bar where you can enjoy the phantom "Kabuto beer" that was born in Handa during the Meiji era. Why is Handa's Kabuto beer available here in Nagoya? Birth of "Nayabashi TWILO" (hereafter: Twilo)...

2019.03.28

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[Nayabashi TWILO Kabuto Beer Nagoya Branch (Nayabashi Twilo)]
Business hours: 12:00-23:00 (LO food 22:00, drink 22:30)
Closed: Sundays, public holidays
https://www.facebook.com/Nayabashi TWILO-998687143617833/

I want to give back as much as I can to this place where I was born and raised.

Finally, we asked about the future of Nayabashi.

Takayama: "Recently, Nayabashi has become a fashionable town. I often hear people say that, but it has become a normal town. For a long time, this area was a brothel district, with many love hotels, and people only saw the neon lights, so people had the impression that it was not a safe town. It was a very handicapped area.

I spent my high school days in the United States, but I also went to SOHO in New York, which is known as a city where artists gather, as a son of a picture frame shop. However, when you actually go there, there are many galleries, but there is nothing as a town. On the surface, with buildings, it's a bleak scene. However, if you go into the back alley, it creates a unique atmosphere. ”

Event held at Nayabashi

Takayama: "Art can also be erotic. That's why I've come to think that the frame shop in the chaotic town of Nayabashi is also cool. The men who call out to the sex industry are like gatekeepers to the town, and no one wishes that the shop had disappeared.

People say, "Takayama-san's store is getting bigger. Is it OK for us to go to your bar?" This kind of old-fashioned neighborly relationship has been established here, and it is very rare to find such a town.

Recently, many events have been held, and Nayabashi has become more active. As a picture frame shop in Nayabashi, I would like to give back as much as possible to the place where I was born and raised, while valuing the historical background. ”

The other day, I asked Mr. Takayama to make a picture frame for a painting I bought on a trip, and he did a wonderful job. I was asked, “What color would you like the mount to be?”, and since I only had the image that the mount is white, I was very impressed that the impression of the picture changed with just one color of the mount.

Recently, when I travel abroad, I buy a painting as a memory, but I've noticed that I want a painting because I want to put it in a nice frame. That's how attractive the frames made by Takayama Picture Frame and the owner Mr. Takayama are.

Please visit the one and only picture frame shop in the world.