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Muji, “the Japanese Ikea,” is opening a store at the Time Warner Center (a.k.a., a little bit of New Jersey right here in midtown). You really need to check out this slide show<\/a> of some of their impossibly minimalist products. The CD player (slide #5) just blows my mind. Not sure I’d trust them to build my house, though. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muji, “the Japanese Ikea,” is opening a store at the Time Warner Center (a.k.a., a little bit of New Jersey right here in midtown). You really need to check out this slide show of some of their impossibly minimalist products. The CD player (slide #5) just blows my mind. Not sure I’d trust them to … <\/p>\n

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