OUR STORY
About Takamichi Beauty Room
Takamichi Beauty Room is New York City’s ultimate curated gift shop — both online and in our Gramercy Park storefront. We specialize in one-of-a-kind ceramics, exclusive fragrances, and Japanese goods you won’t find anywhere else. Every piece in our collection is chosen with an editor’s eye and a collector’s heart.
Our shelves are home to exclusive collaborations, limited-edition releases, and rare finds from artisans and makers around the world — from South Korean ceramic masters like Dogabi to niche French perfumers such as Marie Jeanne. You’ll also find Japanese incense, handcrafted soaps, and design-driven home goods that blur the line between object and art.
Whether you’re shopping in person or browsing online, we want you to feel like you’ve discovered a secret — the kind of place you only tell your closest friends about. Takamichi Beauty Room is a place where design, craft, and beauty meet, offering gifts that are as unique as the people you give them to.
Visit us in New York or explore our online store to find the perfect gift — for someone you love or for yourself.
A CONTEMPORARY CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Our vision for Takamichi Beauty Room looks to the centuries-old legacy of cabinets of curiosity to create a new retail conception, inspired by the past and for the present.
Early cabinets of curiosity of the 15th and 16th centuries sought to “distill the universe” by combining naturalia, art, and scientific novelties from all over the world within the confines of a chamber. The ostensibly humanist motivation (power moves aside) in curating these aesthetic feasts of knowledge was to cultivate one’s private intellectual life; exhibiting superficially unrelated material on an aesthetic rather than rational basis with the aim of hosting curiosity & wonder in the beholder.
While our motivations and ambitions are not necessarily aligned with those of a Renaissance prince, and we do not pretend to “distill the universe,” the impulse to inspire curiosity & wonder through objects and their display remains the same.
Our selection criterion is based on the Littré Dictionary’s definition the French world objet: “anything which is the cause or subject of a passion. Figuratively and most typically: the loved object.” An oversimplification of our process to be sure, but one that captures its essence. We believe in the integrity of objects. In a Proustian way: how a glycerin soap can stimulate our senses, our memories, delight us, and yes, kindle a tiny passion within us. Our shop lends itself to beauty and wellness because of the sensory nature and accessibility of their objects.
In the spirit of cabinets of curiosity, we discover most of our products while traveling or through encounters; our stock comes from all over and is always evolving. Explore our selection of niche fragrances like Marie Jeanne, Kintsugi, Ortigia, Japanese goods like Shabondama, Hibi incense, Ippodo teas and one-of-a-kind ceramics from Korea and Brooklyn. Everything we sell has a story, and we are always happy to share it with you.