RECOMMENDED: Kyoichi Tsuzuki - Tokyo: A Certain Style (book, photo album) / 1999 🏠 🇯🇵
Tsuzuki, Kyoichi : 9780811824231 - Tokyo: A Certain Style
Originally published: September 1999
440 pages
DESCRIPTION-1:
„The serene gardens, tatami mats, Zen-inspired decor, sliding doors, and shoji screens of the typical Japanese home. Think again. Tokyo: A Certain Style, the mini-sized decor book with a difference, shows how, for those living in one of the worlds most expensive and densely packed metropolises, closet-sized apartments stacked to the ceiling with gadgetry and CDs are the norm. Photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki rode his scooter all over Tokyo snapping shots of how urban Japanese really live. Hundreds of photographs reveal the real Tokyo style: microapartments, mini and modular everything, rooms filled to the rafters with electronics, piles of books and clothes, clans of remote controls, collections of sundry objets all crammed into a space where every inch counts. Tsuzuki introduces each tiny crash pad with a brief text about who lives there, from artists and students to professionals and couples with children. His entertaining captions to the hundreds of photographs capture the spirit and ingenuity required to live in such small quarters. This fascinating, voyeuristic look at modern life comes in a chunky, pocket-sized format-the perfect coffee table book for people with really small apartments.”
ISBN 10: 0811824233 / ISBN 13: 9780811824231
DESCRIPTION-2:
„Japanese editor and photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki's photo book "Tokyo: A Certain Style". After working as an editor and writer for the magazines "Popeye" and "BRUTUS", he has worked on works such as "Art Random", a collection of works by contemporary artists at the now-defunct Kyoto Shoin. In addition, he began to take photographs during his interviews, and the photo book "ROADSIDE JAPAN Chin Nihon Jikou", which compiled reportages of suspicious facilities in various parts of Japan, which was serialized in a magazine, won the 23rd Kimura Ihei Photography Award. Also became known as a photographer. This book is the English version of the famous book "TOKYO STYLE", which records the real life (traces) of people living in Tokyo through their living spaces, and gives you a sense of the perspectives and methods unique to Tsuzuki. etc. are different). Students, singles, and families all have different lifestyles and hobbies, but rather than a space designed like an interior design magazine, it contains vivid scenes of life.” - made-in-wonder.com
DESCRIPTION-3:
„More than three decades after its original publication, this new edition of Tokyo Style revives a cult classic and token collector’s item. Kyoichi Tsuzuki’s timeless photographs offer an intimate look at Tokyo homes as they are truly inhabited, presented here with a refreshed design that preserves the original book’s generous format. A selection of the book’s iconic images culminates in a new afterword by Kyoichi that unravels the nostalgia sparked by his work, which captures an analogue world of rich self-expression. A foreword by writer Barry Yourgrau, a longtime friend of Kyoichi, meditates on the ‘untidy and prodigiously cluttered’ hideouts of Tokyo, filled with everything ‘from the raunchy to the freaky and funky to the kawaii (“cute” in Japanese)’.” - casabosques.net
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