{"product_id":"the-modern-japanese-tea-room","title":"The Modern Japanese Tea Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Freemans powerful color images. A tribute to contemporary Japanese culture and a taste of its future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952275058741,"sku":"ByrdShop_8889431873","price":110.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9788889431870.jpg?v=1770157200","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-modern-japanese-tea-room","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}