‘Made in Japan’ is a simple phrase, but one full of meaning. From kettles and cutlery to chairs, Japan creates some of the most innovative, elegant, whimsical and well-made objects in the world. Combining high aesthetic standards with cutting-edge technology, many of these designs turn everyday items into functional works of art that would look as good in a museum as on a kitchen counter. Made in Japan surveys 100 of the country’s recent design triumphs, among them furnishings, utensils, gadgets, clothing, office equipment and even a silent guitar. While the book features mainly mass-produced objects, it also includes one-off prototypes and limited-edition items that are immensely popular in Japan. Created specifically for the Japanese consumer, these products reflect the way people live, work and play in a country that prizes highly both exceptional craftsmanship and industrial perfection.

• A selection of outstanding Japanese products of this century, from gadgets and furnishings to office supplies and decorative objects
• Features a comprehensive introduction to the history and traditions of Japanese product design
• With biographies of the leading designers working in Japan today, including Naoto Fukasawa, Tokujin Yoshioka and Toyo Ito

A long-overdue history of this fascinating decorative art, illustrated with stunning colour throughout

Includes a directory of japan artists and decorators, and offers details of japanners in the English Midlands, London, Oxford and other European centres, as well as Russia and the United States.

As one of the few decorative arts about which little has been written, japanning is today fraught with misunderstandings. And yet, in its heyday, the japanning industry attracted important commissions from prestigious designers such as Robert Adam, and orders from fashionable society across Europe and beyond.

This book is a long-overdue history of the industry which centred on three towns in the English midlands: Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Bilston. It is as much about the workers, their skills, and the factories and workshops in which they laboured, as it is about the goods they made. It tells of matters of taste and criticism, and of how an industry which continued to rely so heavily upon hand labour in the machine age reached its natural end in the 1880s with a few factories lingering into the late 1930s. Richly illustrated, it includes photographs of mostly marked, or well-documented, examples of japanned tin and papier mâché against which readers may compare - and perhaps identify - unmarked specimens.

Japanned Papier Mâché and Tinware draws predominantly upon contemporary sources: printed, manuscript and typescript documents, and, for the period leading up to the closure of the last factories in the 1930s, the author was able to draw on verbal accounts of eyewitnesses. With a chapter on japanners in London, other European centres, and in the United States, together with a directory of japan artists and decorators, this closely researched and comprehensive book is the reference work for collectors, dealers and enthusiasts alike.

Contents:
From Imitation to Innovation; Enter the Dragon!; The Lion of the District; Japanning & Decorating; Not a Bed of Roses!; Clever Accidents?; Decline of the Midlands Japanning Industry; The Birmingham Japanners; The Wolverhampton Japanners; The Bilston Japanners; Japanners in London and Oxford; Products; Other Western Japanning Centres; Appendices.

Illustrations and photographs, each paired with an eloquent quotation, take the reader on a tour of the Land of the Rising Sun in Japan. The images include some of the earliest photographs taken in Japan, in addition to the work of contemporary photographers, plus traditional and modern prints and designs. The accompanying texts are taken from classic works like The Tale of Genji, as well as more modern literature, each one revealing a piece of wisdom from the East for each season of the year.
Japan has held a certain fascination for many Westerners since its reopening by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854. Thanks to two centuries of isolation, its classical traditions and customs survived industralization and globalization, resulting in a unique blending of old and new. This book brings together the historical and the current in a broad portrait of Japanese heritage through the centuries.

Back to the future. Visionary architecture in postwar Japan

Architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist compile a history of Metabolism: the first non-Western avant-garde architecture, born out of postwar Tokyo. Extensive interviews and rare photographs introduce the movement and shed light on the group’s futuristic vision for the future; a dream of cities that would grow, reproduce and transform in response to their environment.

“Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think... although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture — Metabolism — that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men… Through sheer hard work, discipline, and the integration of all forms of creativity, their country, Japan, became a shining example... when the oil crisis initiated the end of the West, the architects of Japan spread out over the world to define the contours of a post-Western aesthetic....” — Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist

Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism — the first non-Western avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in 1960, in the midst of Japan’s postwar miracle. Project Japan features hundreds of never-before-seen images — master plans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi urban visions — telling the 20th-century history of Japan through its architecture.

From the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s, a devastated Japan after the war, and the establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference in Tokyo to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect, the apotheosis of Metabolism at Expo ’70 in Osaka, and its expansion into the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s: The result is a vivid documentary of the last moment when architecture was a public rather than a private affair.

- Oral history by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Extensive interviews with Arata Isozaki, Toshiko Kato, Kiyonori Kikutake, Noboru Kawazoe, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Kenji - Ekuan, Atsushi Shimokobe, and Takako and Noritaka Tange
- Hundreds of never-before-seen images, architectural models, and magazine excerpts
- Layout by award-winning Dutch designer Irma Boom

The editors and authors:

Rem Koolhaas is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Having worked as a journalist and scriptwriter before becoming an architect, in 1978 he published Delirious New York. His 1996 book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections of contemporary society and architecture. He was listed among TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2008, and among many international awards and exhibitions he received the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Praemium Imperiale (2003). He directed the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, coinciding with the first publication of Elements of Architecture.

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 shows. Obrist’s recent publications include Mondialité, Conversations in Colombia, Ways of Curating, Somewhere Totally Else, and Lives of The Artists, Lives of The Architects.

This example-packed overview of contemporary Japanese illustration showcases the works of 100 of Japans most successful and exciting artists and designers.

The images embrace a huge range of styles, from traditional to futuristic, from classic ukiyo-e prints to the worlds of manga and anime. Some look towards urban street culture or build their own surreal dreamscapes, while others revisit a playful world of childhood innocence or explore darker realms of violence and terror. The book also includes ten interviews in which the illustrators discuss their work and what inspires them.

The range of amazing images and subjects in this book is hugely memorable, an exciting journey to the utterly idiosyncratic but wonderful world of the Japanese sensibility.

Storefront design in Japan is part of Japanese culture and reflects the traditional concern for aesthetics, symmetry, discretion and simplicity. The commercial culture from brand identity to consumer psychcology calls for distinctive, innovative design statements consistent with widely diverse and high quality goods and services. This book presents the best of contemporary storefront design taking account of layout, colour, lighting, advertisement drawing, logo design, display cases and materials. It also shows the critical importance of the store window space to both the brand owner and the storefront designer.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

004/ Preface
006/ Brand Store
108/ Bags, Shoes and Hats
128/ Jewelry Shop
154/ Watch and Spectacles
170/ Cosmetics
184/ General Category
206/ Japanese Restaurants
214/ Chinese Restaurants
228/ The Restaurants Inside
236/ Cafés and Bakery

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The elegant design of the hotel and the perfect harmony between Japanese traditional culture and the modern design concept in this book present you both sensual and psychological appreciation of the affluent spa culture of Japan, the spa kingdom in the world. With more than fifty well-known and distinguished Japanese hotels included, the book gives detailed descriptions of the scales, facilities, and the design styles of the Japanese spa baths of each hotel in particular. From the interior design of the spacious and bright reception halls, the luxurious ocean-front guest rooms, and the cozy beauty and wellness salons to the exterior landscape design of Japanese gardens and the ideal location near the mountains or by a river, and especially the individualized recuperative spa baths, all demonstrate the work of the Japanese spa hotel master designers.

This book features the following Japanese Spa Resort projects

Shimoda Yamatokan
Otsuki Hotel Wafuukan
Seizanyamato
Hotel MICURAS
The Prince Hakone Resort
Ootaki Hotel
Hakone Hougetu
Gora Tensui
Hotel Kajikaso
Yushintei
Kamogawakan
Amagisou
Mizuniwa no Hatago Sumiyoshikan
Nishiizu Toi Onsen Hotel Miyabi
Toi Hotel Sankaitei
Ochiairou Murakami
Hotel Izukyu
Hoshinoya Karuizawa
Hotel Hananoi
IZUMISOU
ANGINE
Horai
Kishoan
Sun Hatoya Hotel
Hotel Hatoya
Sora Togetsusou Kinryu
Atami Sakuraya Ryokan
Yagyu-No-Sho
ASABA Ryokan
HANAFUBUKI Ryokan
Isawa View Hotel
Hotel Hana-Isawa
Kasugai View Hotel
Southern Cross Resort Hotel
Hotel Laforet Nasu
Laforet Club Hotel Naka-Karuizawa
Laforet Club Hotel Yitou
Zagyosoh
Yokikan
Inatori Ginsui
Dougashima New Ginsui
Tubaki
Sansuirou
Seiransou
Onyadomegumi
Mikawaya Ryokan
Hakone Hotel Kowakien
Hotel ChooBoo
Yugawara Mizunokaori
Hotel Shiroyama
Prince Hotel Manza

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Japan embodies the fascinating cross-section of a country endowed with a rich and varied culture, firmly imbued with traditional knowledge, skill and experience. The book features 50 of the best of Japanese interior design trends in Japan in different categories such as offices, bars, culture, living and shopping, from traditional tatami to modern minimal. The interiors presented in this book offer a glimpse into the eastern design and its philosophy of simplicity: the use of neutral and natural colors to minimize feelings of clutter and the color black to lend definition and form; furthermore, it reveals the ingenious, minimalistic way of living and being.

The Art of the Japanese Garden traces the development and blending of gardening traditions, as well as the inclusion of new features as gardening reached new heights of sophistication on Japanese soil. The book features a number of the most notable gardens in Japan, including graveled courtyards, early aristocratic gardens, esoteric and paradise gardens, Zen gardens, warrior gardens, tea gardens and stroll gardens.

The creation of a Japanese garden combines respect for nature with adherence to simple principles of aesthetics and structure. In Japanese Garden Design, landscape architect Marc Peter Keane presents the history and development of the classical metaphors that underlie all Japanese gardens.

Keane describes the influences of Confucian, Shinto and Buddhist principles that have linked poetry and philosophy to the tangible metaphor of the garden. Detailed explanations of basic design concepts identify and interpret the symbolism of various garden forms and demonstrate these principles in use today.

This lavishly illustrated book examines the profound influence of Japanese prints on the Impressionists and their American contemporaries.

Richly illustrated throughout, this elegant volume introduces two hundred years of Japanese prints and examines their evolution, innovative techniques, and radical impact on the European and American avant-garde of the nineteenth century. The book commences with a chronological survey of the Japanese print, including works from early masters such as Harunobu and Utamaro, classic prints by the renowned artists Hokusai and Hiroshige, and nineteenth-century examples by Kunisada and Kuniyoshi. The second half of the book focuses on Western artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Rivière, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who drew on the Japanese aesthetic in their own diverse ways. The result is a beautiful book that offers a fascinating glimpse of how the great Japanese prints affected modern art, from Impressionism and beyond.

This book contains more than 350 masterworks of artists such as Hiroshite, Utamaro, Harunobu, Eisen and Hokusai, all from the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum

The Visual Encyclopaedia series provide up to 300 beautiful photographic and artwork images, illustrating subjects of perennial cultural interest. Images are accompanied by narrative providing background, brief criticism, and details on relevant museums, brief biographies and time lines

Originating from Japan's Edo period (1615-1867), tansu refers mostly to wooden cabinets, boxes and chests. The gifted creators of this art were deservedly esteemed by Japanese society, leaving a rich and influential legacy. Their work was almost anonymous, though, and the history has remained in the shadows - until now. Japanese Cabinetry: The Art and Craft of Tansu is the first truly definitive volume on tansu, giving voice to the long-overlooked craftsmen and overdue respect for the craft. This book provides a broad representation of cabinetry designs along with contextual history, gleaning insights from the cabinetry itself. From trunks with wheels to shipboard safes, from kitchen cupboards to clothing chests, tansu were the receptacles of an age of economic expansion. Japanese Cabinetry chronicles not only the physical characteristics and details of tansu, but also the historical eras and societal factors that influenced the craft.

This fascinating and lavishly illustrated introduction to the world of Japanese erotic art includes many previously unpublished images. Demonstrating a high level of artistic and technical achievement, Shunga is an under-explored area of Japanese art. This beautiful book takes a fresh look at the centrality of eroticism in Edo urban culture, including highlights from the collections of erotic Japanese art at the British Museum, which are unrivalled in Europe.

Over the course of the Edo period (1615-1868), was extraordinarily large quantity of paintings, prints and illustrated books with sexual and erotic themes produced in Japan. From the 1760s on, printed works were produced using full-colour woodblock technology and these constitute some of the finest examples of art printing in Japan, employing deluxe materials and special printing effects.

This book features pictures by some of the most renowned artists, such as Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai, who produced erotic imagery as a standard part of their work.