A few years ago I had a show at Issey Miyake’s 21_21 design museum which is part of the swanky shopping centre called Tokyo Midtown. Each day while mounting the show I had wandered past the ‘Green Dog’ a spa, ‘holistic care’ and culinary shop for dogs. Running along side the shop is the glass walled spa where you can gaze in at dogs being shampooed, receiving mud masks or rock salt massages, or getting their hair styled. The faces of the dogs as they were blown dried and the resulting teddy bear cuts had remained with me, and when I was next in Japan I headed straight back to see fluffy mutts.