The Modern Japanese Tea Room
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8889431873 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Imagination and innovation in the tea room Aafke-Art This is a beautiful book. Hardcover, lovely full color photos. Very interesting spaces. I wish I could have a space dedicated to water for tea, this book lets me dream about all the possibilities.It is fascinating how many different approaches there are to the concept of the small . Beautiful, but not very educational. Beautiful book to look at, and it has a short description of the history of the tea room and of some of the characteristics of each tea room in the book, but that's it. Not a very thorough description of each tea room, and not even pictures of all the elements of each tea room. Wor. Elegant, inspiring book LW Raboys This is a truly special book - a beautiful gift for yourself or anyone interested in Zen, tea, architecture and/or finding tranquility in everyday life. Ostensibly it's about Japanese tea rooms as envisioned by contemporary architects. But the beauty of the prose, the photographs,
The formal tea ceremony developed in the fifteenth century, and its ritual is closely defined, as is the space for it: traditionally, chashitsus include windows, an alcove (tokonoma) with flowers and painted parchment, bamboo beds (tatami), and a fireplace on the floor (ro); they do not include furniture, in part because they are spaces for meditation. The Modern Japanese Tea Room showcases chashitsus, traditional Japanese tea ceremony salons, as reconceived by contemporary architects and designers. The Modern Japanese Tea Room includes projects from renowned Japanese names including Kengo Kuma, Terunobu Fujimori, Shigeru Uchida, Arata Isozaki, Chitoshi Kihara, Yasujirou Aoki and Hisanobu Tsujimura. The Modern Japanese Tea Room opens with an introduction to the history of the tea ceremony, identifying its physical elements and going over to the ceremony itself, and then moves on to more than 35 projects gathered together in 250 of Michael Freeman's powerful color images. Their work in a wide variety of materials--paper, wood, plastic, aluminum, glass, concrete--represents the la