Japan Style : 日本の伝統家屋や和風モダンインテリア紹介する写真集

Architecture + Interiors + Design

Japan Style offers rare glimpses into twenty exquisite traditional homes in Japan. The lavish photographs in this volume demonstrate how Japanese design achieves a timeless tranquility using a few very simple, natural elements.

Wood is the preferred building material since it is considered a "living" material; the country's Shinto and Zen Buddhist roots have inculcated a deep respect for nature. The houses in this book are a wonderful reminder that there are alternatives to "big is beautiful"?and that neither timelessness nor modernity has to be about using cold steel, glass and concrete.

The wabi-sabi ideal, translated loosely by Frank Lloyd Wright as a "rusticity and simplicity that borders on loneliness," is considered the epitome of sophistication in Japanese interior design. The houses in this book invite us to rethink the wisdom of our hurried modern lifestyle and return to a simpler, slower life.

The quintessential Japanese aesthetic can be seen in a 100-year-old minka farmhouse, an old merchant's machiya townhouse in Kyoto, a sprawling country Samurai villa, and in a modern seaside cottage. This book offers insights for architects and homeowners alike by providing inspiring and surprising alternatives, relevant to the design of homes anywhere in the world today.

建築とインテリア双方の観点で厳選された邸宅20軒が収録された写真集。

希少な伝統家屋と品の良い現代建築が織り交ぜられた本書は、時代を超えて愛される天然素材の落ち着きとデザインの素晴らしさを伝えます。

建築だけでなく、インテリアや小道具も必見です。撮影はELLE DECOを初めとするインテリア雑誌で活躍する村田昇。