A Japanese Touch for Your Home – Koji Yagi (KTE0008)

A JAPANESE TOUCH FOR YOUR HOME

The Japanese house offers bold and exciting ideas for people thinking about remodeling their home or redoing their apartment. This book describes the basic elements of Japanese interior design and then shows you how to use them. Install tatami mats and shoji doors-quintessential elements of Japanese interior design and see how beautifully they respond to the American home. Change the size and shape of a room, easily and tastefully, with bamboo screens and movable partitions. Build a simple Japanese-style alcove, decorate it with something special, and then flaunt it. Try some Japanese lighting techniques low, soft, and beautiful. Change the mood of a room, change your way of looking at things.

There’s much more in this book. Practical, approachable, and authentic, it is written by a young Japanese architect concerned about the demands of contemporary life-styles and the answers that traditional Japanese design has to offer.

Over 120 color plates taken by a leading Japanese photographer accompany the informed text. In addition, over 200 black and white sketches, floor plans, a section on do-it-yourself projects, and a list of organizations in the U.S. one may consult make this a book that will pique your desire to be creative and then show you how to fulfill it. A practical guide for homeowners, for interior designers, for people who like to work with their heads and their hands, this book may be the beginning of a new way of living for you.

A Japanese Touch for Your Home, Contents:

INTRODUCTION

INTERMEDIATE SPACE

THE FORMAL ENTRANCEWAY

THE VERANDA

SCREENING DEVICES

INTERIOR SPACE

TATAMI MATS

TRANSLUCENT SLIDING DOORS

OPAQUE SLIDING DOORS/TRANSOMS/PORTABLE PARTITIONS

THE ALCOVE

THE ROOM FOR THE TEA CEREMONY

THE JAPANESE WAY OF SITTING

LIGHTING TECHNIQUES

THE BATH

DO-IT-YOURSELF PROJECTS