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"Fifteen Japanese homes, complete with shoji screens and tatami mats, in 224 color photos." -- Associated Press
About the Author
Alexandra Black spent five years in Japan studying Japanese language, culture, and art and architecture. She has written for numerous publications and is the author of Living in Cuba. She lives in London.
Noburu Murata is an internationally recognized photographer who specializes in Asian architecture and interior design and contributes regularly to shelter publications throughout the world, including, Elle Decor and other leading lifestyle magazines.
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The ancient Taoist scholar Laotse espoused that the true beauty of a room lay in the vacant space enclosed by the roof and walls, rather than the roof and walls themselves. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
The ancient Taoist scholar Laotse espoused that the true beauty of a room lay in the vacant space enclosed by the roof and walls, rather than the roof and walls themselves. Read the first page
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Ten stars And has proven very valuable to us...,
By MotherLodeBeth "MotherLodeBeth" (Sierras of California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Japanese House (Hardcover)
Awesome book that is proving to be very helpful as we design and get ready to build a very "Zen Danish" style home that isn't at all the cluttered American styled home. And I love the photos that demonstrate how to have things..and have them out of site. And I simply love the clean open style of the homes which is also what we are looking for.This is a book for those who are sincerely interested in authentic Japanese home design, and not for someone who want a bit of Japanese in their American home!
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A MUST HAVE!,
By Marcus Rabovsky (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Japanese House (Hardcover)
This book is awesome! For anyone interested in decorating in a traditional Japanese style, as I was, or just an admirer of Japanese culture, this book is a MUST HAVE!Beautiful pictures and enough detail written to explain why things are designed the way they are...
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Pure Eye Candy!,
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This review is from: Japanese House (Hardcover)
This book shows 13 houses ranging from "the teahouse" over "the traditional inn" and a "samurai residence" to "Japanese modern". It is mainly a photo book, the text is sparse. Each house gets two pages of introductory text, the rest is comments to the pictures. These are of the highest quality in terms of resolution, lighting, layout and print quality. It's easy to understand that "Noboru Murata is one of Japan's most accomplished interior photographers" (quote from the back flap). The main layout of this book is that there is one big picture covering one page (or more) completely, while the opposing page has up to three smaller pictures and the describing text.If you are looking to get detailed information about the what, where and why of Japanese architecture with drawings, footprints and descriptions of styles or historical context you might have to look somewhere else. But if you want to immerse into the beauty deriving from the simple aesthetics of Japanese houses, than this book is for you.
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