MADO

MADO is a gallery in Midtown located within the Issey Miyake flagship at 45 Madison Avenue. Designed by SO–IL, the intimate space sits at the rear of a Cass Gilbert building overlooking Madison Square Park and showcases contemporary artists and design-focused exhibitions.

MADO sits at the back of the Issey Miyake flagship at 45 Madison Avenue: past the structural-glass staircase, past the pleated rails, past the titanium panel salvaged from the old Gehry-designed Tribeca store. The name means "window" in Japanese, and the space earns it: tucked into the rear of a Cass Gilbert Beaux-Arts building overlooking Madison Square Park, it reads less like a gallery appended to a store than like a room that needed to exist. Designed by SO–IL, it will open its first exhibition with a Brooklyn-based Japanese artist this summer, followed by a SO–IL show of material explorations and collaborations in September 2026. The animating question is an old Miyake one: where does making clothes end and making culture begin?