Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum is a craftsmanship gallery in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition hall is situated in Minato Ward, only east of Meguro Station. The Art Deco building, finished in 1933, has insides planned by Henri Rapin and highlights enhancing glass work by René Lalique.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum building was beforehand the living arrangement of Prince Asaka Yasuhiko and his family from 1933 to 1947. The ruler, who learned at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in France, and made a trip to the United States in 1925, was extraordinarily captivated by the Art Deco development.

On the arrival to Japan, he appointed the development of the private living arrangement in this style. Albeit a considerable lot of the insides were outlined by plans put together by Henri Rapin, the primary engineer of the building itself is credited as Gondo Yukichi of the Works Bureau of the Imperial Household Ministry.