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Title: Asian Style by Gilles De Bure, Frederic Morellec, Annie Desgrippes ISBN: 2-08-013680-1 Publisher: Flammarion Pub. Date: 08 December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: aimless prose
Comment: This book start out promising by saying they will discuss a variety of Asian styles (not just Japanese and Chinese, which so many other "Asian" style books seem to do). The table of contents is also promising -- "Clarity and Simplicity", "Materials", "Colors", "Patterns", and "Shapes" -- in that it sounds a somewhat systematic treatment of various aspects of design in several Asian cultures is going to be presented to the reader.
The actual text doesn't quite live up to those expectations. The section on "Materials" really doesn't have a lot to say other than "Asian interiors feature little or no stone" and then goes on to list some things that are use: paper, earthen works, egg shells, natural weaves, bamboo, and silk. Each of these topics gets dealt with in a very cursory manner. Silk, one of the things that many people immediately identify with Asian style merits one measly paragraph and two photos (one of a comforter and one of some pillows, how original).
The book really fails to discuss in any kind of meaningful or systematic way how various Asian cultures deal with materials and color and so on.
Also the photos in book are quite useless. I mean, the photos are nice, crisp, clear and all that. It is just that they show the objects completely out of context. For instance there is an extremely zoomed in picture of a buncle of incense sticks. While there are certainly cases where I like this photo style -- when talking about individual components of style like proportion and color -- you need to have SOME photos showing objects in context or people just can't get an idea of whether than bundle of incense sticks would actually add a note of color to a room.
There are also quite a few objects that I'm not sure why they were included in this book. There is a photo of vermicelli in Chinese packaging, for instance. It is just food in generic consumer packaging. I can go to a supermarket if I want that kind of inspiration. Later on these is a photo of some Chinese newspaper used as decoration. Can you imagine if someone wallpapered their house with the New York Times? Just because you don't understand the language don't mean it isn't a dumb idea.
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Title: East West Style: A Design Guide for Blending Eastern and Western Elements at Home by Ann McArdle ISBN: 1564966550 Publisher: Rockport Publishers Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: East Meets West : Global Design for Contemporary Interiors by Kelly Hoppen, Bill Batten, Alexandra Campbell ISBN: 084782036X Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: China Style by Sharon Leece, Micheal Freeman, Michael Freeman ISBN: 962593457X Publisher: Periplus Editions Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Asian Elements: Natural Balance in Eastern Design by Jane Edwards, Andrew Wood ISBN: 1579590780 Publisher: SOMA Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: New Asian Style: Contemporary Tropical Living in Singapore by Jane Doughty Marsden, Masano Kawana ISBN: 9625938273 Publisher: Periplus Editions Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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