- ISBN13: 9784770016621
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Filled with elegant designs and clever tips, A Japanese Touch for Your Home offers bold and exciting ideas for remodeling your home or redecorating your apartment. The author, architect Koji Yagi, explains the basic elements of Japanese interior design and shows you how to use them. Install tatami mats and shoji doors–cardinal elements of Japanese interior design–and see how beautifully they respond to the Western home. Change the size and shape of a room easily… More >>
The title of “A Japanese Touch for your home” is misleading. Don’t expect a set of advice on how to add Japanese-style details to your home interior. Rather, this is a detailed guide of creating an authentic Japanese home, using the correct dimensions and materials. Starting from the use of shoji to how to built a room for the tea ceremony, from the entranceway to veranda – it’s all there with pictures and plans.
I am not sure if many people outside Japan would really go that far as to build a real Japanese house, but it is certainly an enlightening and interesting book, giving you a perspective of a culture and a way of life.
Rating: 3 / 5
I just received my copy of this book a day ago. I was frankly a little disappointed. The book is well made but for me, ultimately unsatisfying. The rooms are traditional Japanese as I had hoped, but the photos while in color, are typically small and done in a non-glossy printing process that makes the colors look muted and dull. There is lot of detail in B&W drawing form of Shoji screen and Asian light-fixture designs. Still, I think the book cries out for bigger photos, glossier color, and a sense of life. Curiously, these are some of the things that are most notable in Japanese architecture. The rooms seem static and lifeless. It’s not a bad book but it could have been done better so far as the photography is concerned.
Rating: 3 / 5
Primarily a picture book, but beautifully illustrated with abbreviated but clear, if rather journalistic, text. As advertised.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is the first I purchased on the subject of Japanese interiors, which I crave. Yagi and Williams cover the essentials of what you need to know, provide excellent photographic examples of their topics, and intructions on do it yourself projects. I rate it a 4 because I wanted the book to have more!
Rating: 4 / 5
This book has beautiful photos of very lovely Japanese-style homes, but I wouldn’t say that it’s full of ideas for how to find more space in your home, or how to easily incorporate Japanese design or features into your already existing home. I would say if you have a lot of money, a lot of space, and at least some land, you could use this book to rebuild and create the perfect Japanese home. And you’re going to have to get rid of all (and I mean all) the tchatchkes, or else cram them all in your new storage space. Which is not a bad idea for us Americans (getting rid of them, that is). I would like to see a book with ideas on how to use Japanese interior design ideas to help create more space and beauty in any home, using the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi.
Rating: 2 / 5