Japan Style: Architecture + Interiors + Design

Japan Style: Architecture + Interiors + Design - Hardcover

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Japan Style: Architecture + Interiors + Design

Japan Style: Architecture + Interiors + Design - Hardcover

by Geeta Mehta , Kimie Tada
$24.99
Sale price  $24.99 Regular price 

Book Overview

Japanese homes speak to the soul and provide a contemplative environment from which to experience the world.

Japan Style offers rare glimpses into twenty exquisite traditional homes in Japan. The lavish photographs in this volume demonstrate how Japanese design achieves a timeless tranquility using a few very simple, natural elements.

Wood is the preferred building material since it is considered a "living" material; the country's Shinto and Zen Buddhist roots have inculcated a deep respect for nature. The houses in this book are a wonderful reminder that there are alternatives to "big is beautiful"--and that neither timelessness nor modernity has to be about using cold steel, glass and concrete.

The wabi-sabi ideal, translated loosely by Frank Lloyd Wright as a "rusticity and simplicity that borders on loneliness," is considered the epitome of sophistication in Japanese interior design. The houses in this book invite us to rethink the wisdom of our hurried modern lifestyle and return to a simpler, slower life.

The quintessential Japanese aesthetic can be seen in a 100-year-old minka farmhouse, an old merchant's machiya townhouse in Kyoto, a sprawling country Samurai villa, and in a modern seaside cottage. This book offers insights for architects and homeowners alike by providing inspiring and surprising alternatives, relevant to the design of homes anywhere in the world today.
ISBN9784805315231
Author Geeta Mehta , Kimie Tada
PublisherTuttle Publishing
GenreDesign and History
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Geeta Mehta
Noboru Murata has had a career of more than thirty years as an advertising photographer. With Tokyo as his base, Murata has photographed for clients in a wide range of genres, including interiors, cuisine, automobiles, jewelry and sporting products. His pictures have been published in Elle Deco Japon, Casa Mica Italy and other leading lifestyle magazines as well as food magazines like Ell a Table Japon. His recent publications include Japan Style, The Sushi Lover's Cookbook and Japanese Ikebana for Every Season, all published by Tuttle Publishing. Kimie Tada graduated from Rikkyo University (Tokyo) with a degree in English Literature, after which she worked as the editor-in-chief of Confort, a Japanese magazine that features traditional Japanese houses and interiors, as well as materials such as tatami, washi and tsuchi-kabe. She now runs I See All Inc., an editorial company which she founded. Geeta K. Mehta teaches architecture and urban design at Columbia University in New York. A resident of Japan for 23 years, she is a partner in the firm of Braden and Mehta, and has designed projects in the USA, Japan, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Educated at the University of Tokyo, Columbia University, and SPA in Delhi, she is the co-author of several books, including Japan Living, Japan Style and New Japan Architecture.
About Kimie Tada
Kimie Tada graduated from Rikkyo University (Tokyo) with a degree in English Literature, after which she worked as the editor-in-chief of Confort, a Japanese magazine that features traditional Japanese houses and interiors, as well as materials such as tatami, washi and tsuchi-kabe. She now runs I See All Inc., an editorial company which she founded.

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