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- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Damiani; 1St Edition edition (September 1, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 8889431873
- ISBN-13: 978-8889431870
The Modern Japanese Tea Room showcases chashitsus,
traditional Japanese tea ceremony salons, as reconceived by contemporary
architects and designers. 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. More recently those traditions--as closely associated with
the upper class as ""high tea"" is in England and its colonies--have
been rediscovered by architects and designers as a perfect match for
their contemporary work. 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. Their work in a wide variety of
materials--paper, wood, plastic, aluminum, glass, concrete--represents
the latest and most inspiring in Japanese architecture and interior
design, from a tree house in Nagano to a portable space in black
lacquer.
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. A tribute to contemporary Japanese culture and a taste of its future.
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. A tribute to contemporary Japanese culture and a taste of its future.
