Japan Style architecture interiors design – Geeta Mehta (KTE0007)

Japan Style architecture interiors design:

Japan Style offers a tare glimpse into P.O of the finest Japanese-style homes to be found today in Japan. Lavish photographs capture traditional design principles, practical solutions and playful details that make Japanese architecture timeless. This book explains how Japanese design achieves the timeless and expansive quality of space using simple natural elements. This quintessential^ Japanese style is illustrated here by a 100-year-old rural minka. a tiny townhouse in Kyoto, a sprawling mansion, and a modem concrete cottage. This book offers insights for both the expert and layman as well as surprising alternatives that are relevant to the design of modern homes anywhere in the world.

Front cover: The focus of traditional Japanese design is on space, and on how each object placed in space changes It dynamically. Architectural details are often bold, but designed so as to rot detract from this space.

Back cover. The room seen through this single pan-eled screen (tsuitdte) is a mere five square meters in area, but appears expansive due to the use of simple low furniture and uncluttered lines.

Half-title page: Japanese design sưives to achieve a dynamic balance in ikebana as well as other arts. The concept of symmetry, so important to Western design, is considered static, and consciously avoided in Japan.

Title page: Lit from underneath, the glass floor of the tokonomc alcove adds a dramatic modem note to the otherwise traditional muted colors and natural materials of this room.

This page: furniture—such as this display alcove, shelves and cupboards are built into the room to achieve unobstructed space. The bold dark lines of the wood frames and tatami mat borders work with vertical and horizontal planes to create an intensely calm effect.

Japan Style architecture interiors design, Contents:

• What is Japanese about a Japanese House?
• A Tea Master’s Dream Lives On
• Summer Style in a Kyoto Machiya
• Exuberant Spontaneity in an Interior in Osaka
• House of Ikebana
• A Kaga-style Teahouse to Sooth the Soul
• A Celebration of Lacquer Craft
• Coming Home to an Old Machiya
• Antiques Find a New Home in an Old Minka
• A House with a Cosmopolitan Interior
• A Potter Meets His Minka
• An Old Farmhouse Gears up for the Future
• A Home in Snow Country
• A Sukiya-style Setting for an Art Gallery
• An Old Parlor with an Old Tree
• The Evolution of a Modem Home
• A Cottage Shaped by Old Memories
• A Room for Viewing Light and Shadows of Life
• A Tribute to Masters of Modernism
• A House with a View of Mount Asama
• A New House and a Tree
• Acknowledgments and Bibliography