Japanese books
Yes, my Japanese obsession continues (this weekend will no doubt see me cooking giant pots of sushi rice to feed my craving for onigiri), and my bookshelves show it too. While sorting out my studio bookshelves, I was surprised to see how many Japanese books I already have. It’s quite a pile!
A big regret from my recent Tokyo trip was that I didn’t go to the Mina Perhonen store in Tokyo, and couldn’t find it in Kyoto, but at least I managed to pick up a Mina Perhonen book to bring back with me. I snapped a couple of my favourite pages:
I also brought home a book I found at Cibone that I knew nothing about, but I thought that the images would be a great way to remember the streets of Tokyo. Once I got home, though, I found that the book was all about buildings in Osaka!
Anyway, it’s a visually stimulating book called Photo Gallery of Good Buildings: BMC Bldg Mania Cafe that documents details of buildings from the 70s in the Japanese architectural and design movements called Metabolism and Anonymous Design. Full of yummy detail shots of things like doorbells, banisters and window grilles.
OK, so I’d actually planned to show more of my Japanese books here, but it’s Friday afternoon, and I’m bushed. It’s been a good week, with my business partner Pearl back in town for a bit, and we launched a new website, Lookbook and Catalogue (more on that next week), but all the excitement has has taken it out of me.
Have a great weekend, all.
Delphine
Looking at your pile of books I realized I own at least 3 of those! And I have a Mina Perhonen addiction, too. It is fun to share a culture with another artist, on another part of the world (I’m French living in LA)
The fact that our art is vastly different proves once again that true artists should never be afraid of inspiration, and it totally makes my day.
skinnylaminx
Hi Delphine.
I find Japanese craft books irresistable! The styling, the photos, the layout… And I think also that so much of what you find in them is brand new (to me) after the same-same overload that things like Pinterest start to deliver after a while. I just had fun looking through your blog for a first time in a while. Love your adorable illustrations, and thanks so much for the computer advice. I cleared all my caches, and the internet is nice and whizzy this morning.
Have a lovely Monday,
Heather