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22 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 general interest 23 damiani aperture the modern japanese tea room by michael freeman 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 michael freeman is a london based photographer and writer whose work has been published in smithsonian magazine and time life books among other venues his recent japan modern took a rare look at avant garde japanese home design and his other books on asian subjects include the modern japanese garden oriental style and the spirit of asia journeys to the sacred places of the east the modern japanese tea room 88-89431-87-3 978-88-89431-87-0 clothbound 9.5 x 9 in 240 pgs 250 color u.s $49.95 cdn $60.00 september/architecture justin guariglia shaolin temple of zen essay by matthew polly for the first time in history the notoriously guarded warrior monks of the 1500-year-old shaolin temple a chinese buddhist sect dedicated to preserving a form of kung fu known as the vehicle of zen have allowed their secretive society to be documented with the blessing of the main abbot justin guariglia earned the trust and full collaboration of the shaolin monks to create an astonishing empathic record of the shaolin art forms and the individuals who consider themselves the keepers of these traditions over the past eight years guariglia has deftly captured the changing context of this ancient sect as it encounters the increasingly hyper-modern world of contemporary china this amazing work provides viewers with a rare opportunity to examine the energy and spirit of the shaolins unique zen practice which has until now primarily been seen via pop-cultural interpretation in such films as crouching tiger hidden dragon it features serial imagery of fighting poses cinematic grid images and cool design born in 1974 in livingston new jersey justin guariglia lived in asia for nearly a decade and now resides in new york city he has worked for national geographic smithsonian magazine and newsweek guariglia was nominated for the international center of photography s young photographer infinity award received an eddie adams workshop award and was named by photo district news as one of the top 30 young photographers under 30 matthew polly is a princeton university graduate martial artist and rhodes scholar his recent book american shaolin flying kicks buddhist monks and the legend of iron crotch penguin 2007 is a memoir of the two years he spent training at the shaolin temple justin guariglia shaolin 1-59711-080-9 978-1-59711-080-8 hardcover 9.75 x 10.75 in 144 pgs 100 color u.s $40.00 cdn $48.00 october/photography/martial arts justin guariglia s spectacular photographs of the guarded kung fu masters of the ancient shaolin temple bring readers to a place that has never been documented before.

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