The Indigenous Patterns and Hotel Okura

Mizoguchi, Saboro

Verlag: Hotel Okura, Tokyo, 1964

Beschreibung

SABORO MIZOGUCHI. The Indigenous Patterns and Hotel Okura, Tokyo: Hotel Okura, 1964.Quarto, pp. 104, blue cloth boards with silver stamped lettering on front, gravure and color illustration, fold-out watercolor by Ken-ichi Shigeoka, text in English and Japanese. Completed for the Tokyo Olympics, the hotel is "one huge museum of Japanese classical arts. . The present volume . is an attempt to interpret to you our concept of hospitality through a generous use of patterns indigenous to Japan on numerous surfaces and fixtures throughout the hotel. It will also illustrate how some ancient expressions of beauty have been successfully translated into a modern architectural reality" -- from the foreword by Iwajiro Noda. The artist Shigeoka (1895-1988) is probably best known for the murals he did at Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel. He was also a kabuki set designer.Condition: Very good and sound, covers lightly sunned, more so at spine. Size: Quarto. Text is in multiple languages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Architecture; Japan; 1960s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55167. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 55167

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Indigenous Patterns and Hotel Okura

Verlag: Hotel Okura, Tokyo

Erscheinungsdatum: 1964

Einband: Hardcover (Original Cloth)

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket

Auflage: Edition Unstated.