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For over forty years, Jan Jansen has been designing and selling shoes. His designs include the clog of 1969, the bamboo shoe of 1973 and the floating wedge of 1989. He has worked with some of the world's most renowned designers, such as Dior, Manolo Blahnik, Stephane Kélian and Charles Joudan. He has received many prestigious awards - including the Grand Seigneur Prize by the Fashion Association in 1996 - and his work has been exhibited all over the world.
This book illustrates fifty of the very best Jan Jansen designs, offering an insight into the life and the inspiration of this top designer.

Jan Jansen's shoes have been exhibited all over the world, including: Stedelijk Museum for Modern Art, Amsterdam; Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York; Worldexhibition, Montreal; Crafts Council, London; Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo; Hanshin, Osaka, Japan; Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland; Rheinisches Landenmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Ledermuseum, Offenbach , Germany; 2004 + 2005 exhibitions in Japan, sponsored by the Mainichi Newspapers, Japan.

Leading floral artist Jane Packer is renowned the world over for her chic signature style of elegant flowers arranged with a fresh, modern twist. Beloved by private clients as well as those from the film, fashion and business worlds, Jane's arrangements are sold across the globe, and her admirers flock to her four flower schools to glean a little of the Jane Packer magic for themselves. In At Home with Flowers, Jane shows how to use flowers to bring colour, variety and style to every corner of the home. The introduction covers all the important basics, including choosing flowers, conditioning and caring for them. Jane also explains how to choose vases and containers and get the proportions of arrangements right. She then takes us on a tour of every room in the house there are dramatic flowers for mantelpieces, massed vases on console tables, tiny posies on windowsills, luscious blooms on dressing tables and desks, as well as gorgeous floral arrangements for guest rooms and bathrooms. In At Home with Flowers there are no stiff bouquets or formal displays, just simple and achievable arrangements that you'll yearn to recreate in your own home.

About the author:

Jane Packer is one of the world s foremost floral artists, renowned for her fresh, unpretentious style. She established Jane Packer Flowers in 1982 and in 1990 opened her first flower school in London. In 2004, Jane launched  janepacker.com, delivering her trademark arrangements nationwide. She has outlets in London, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, and Kuwait City. Jane s range of five floral fragrances was launched in October 2010, with a range of matching home fragrance candles to follow in Spring 2011. She is also the author of Jane Packer's Guide to Flower Arranging: Easy Techniques for Fabulous Arranging, also published by Ryland Peters & Small.

Jane Packer is one of London's most sought-after florists and also runs celebrated flower schools in London, New York, and Tokyo.

In this irresistible book, Jane covers the same ground as in her four-week career course, here divided into three sections. Flowers to Give teachers all the techniques needed to make a variety of floral gift. Flowers for the Home covers vase arrangements of all shapes and sizes. Flowers for Celebrations offers all the necessary know-how for party flowers, festive wreaths, table arrangements, and beautiful wedding flowers. Lovely photographs of the finished creations are accompanied by step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions. This book distils all Jane Packer's expertise and style into one volume, and imparts the secrets of successful flower arranging to every reader, novice and expert alike.

-  More than 25 glorious step-by-step projects, with a wealth of other original ideas to make the perfect floral arrangement.
-  Professional tips and techniques for choosing, conditioning, and caring for beautiful flowers. 
-  An essential sourcebook for amateur and professional flower arrangers alike.

About the Author

Jane Packer is one of the world s foremost floral artists, renowned for her fresh, unpretentious style. She established Jane Packer Flowers in 1982 and in 1990 opened her first flower school in London. In 2004, Jane launched  janepacker.com, delivering her trademark arrangements nationwide. She has outlets in London, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, and Kuwait City. Jane s range of five floral fragrances was launched in October 2010, with a range of matching home fragrance candles to follow in Spring 2011. She is also the author of Jane Packer at Home with Flowers, also published by Ryland Peters & Small.

Jane Packer is one of London's most sought-after florists and also runs celebrated flower schools in London, New York, and Tokyo.

In this irresistible book, Jane covers the same ground as in her four-week career course, here divided into three sections. Flowers to Give teachers all the techniques needed to make a variety of floral gift. Flowers for the Home covers vase arrangements of all shapes and sizes. Flowers for Celebrations offers all the necessary know-how for party flowers, festive wreaths, table arrangements, and beautiful wedding flowers. Lovely photographs of the finished creations are accompanied by step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions. This book distils all Jane Packer's expertise and style into one volume, and imparts the secrets of successful flower arranging to every reader, novice and expert alike.

-  More than 25 glorious step-by-step projects, with a wealth of other original ideas to make the perfect floral arrangement.
-  Professional tips and techniques for choosing, conditioning, and caring for beautiful flowers. 
-  An essential sourcebook for amateur and professional flower arrangers alike.

About the Author

Jane Packer is one of the world s foremost floral artists, renowned for her fresh, unpretentious style. She established Jane Packer Flowers in 1982 and in 1990 opened her first flower school in London. In 2004, Jane launched  janepacker.com, delivering her trademark arrangements nationwide. She has outlets in London, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, and Kuwait City. Jane s range of five floral fragrances was launched in October 2010, with a range of matching home fragrance candles to follow in Spring 2011. She is also the author of Jane Packer at Home with Flowers, also published by Ryland Peters & Small.

This authoritative guide to flower-arranging combines stylish and innovative design ideas with comprehensive coverage of an ever-popular subject and covers all the materials, techniques and information needed to produce creative flower arrangements.

Every aspect of floral design is explained in detail and illustrated with special photography which brings a visually strong and practical approach to the subject. Step-by-step photography explains techniques, and gives the reader the necessary information to create floral designs of their own, rather than expecting the reader to slavishly follow the illustrated design. An illustrated plant directory gives some of the author's favourite flowers, plants and foliage that she uses for her floral displays, accompanied by notes on their symbolism and uses, to help the reader to produce their own creative and floral design.

About the Author

Jane Packer is one of the world s foremost floral artists, renowned for her fresh, unpretentious style. She established Jane Packer Flowers in 1982 and in 1990 opened her first flower school in London. In 2004, Jane launched  janepacker.com, delivering her trademark arrangements nationwide. She has outlets in London, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, and Kuwait City. Jane s range of five floral fragrances was launched in October 2010, with a range of matching home fragrance candles to follow in Spring 2011.

'One of the most fascinating industrial designers in Europe' - Sony. Industrial designer Jane Worthington (1969, UK) graduated from the highly acclaimed De Monfort University in 1990 and immediately moved to Holland to join Philips Design where she remained until 1995. During that period, she worked with Alexandro Mendini at his studio in Milan on important design projects such as Television at the Crossroads and the Cafe for the Domotechnica Fair for the Philips-Alessi line. She was also responsible for the design of the complete headphone range for which she received a design prize for the sbc333 headphone series. After 1995, Worthington gradually moved her design emphasis away from electronic goods to furniture and currently works for leading international manufacturers in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium. Functional, innovative and sculptural figuration are key features to her award winning work for the Sede which has been included in the "International Design Yearbook 2003". Her work has been exhibited worldwide (Pompidou Centre in Paris, Magna Pars in Milan, Evoluon in Eindhoven, MAK in Vienna, DAZ in Berlin, The National Gallery, Prague). In "Designing Life", Jane Worthington not only showcases her creations, but takes the reader on a tour throughout her house, talks about her sources of inspiration and gives tips regarding design, decorating and even designing food. It is an intimate book that gives a inside view in the world of a top designer.

This book describes and defines what ‘Japan style’ is. It explores specific achievements in Japanese art and architecture, but also offers an in-depth analysis of the whole of Japanese culture, its vision of the world and of humankind.

‘Japan style’ is something recognizable to everyone: a beautifully arranged flower, an elegant piece of calligraphy or a simple rock garden, but it is also something that is very difficult to define.

This book gives the reader the tools to fully understand Japanese art and culture. As Gian Carlo Calza says, the path to understanding and appreciating Japanese culture is slow and long, and in order to develop the right sensibility on the journey, it is imperative that the reader acquires the necessary means. With this in mind, the author reveals and shares his experience in and knowledge of Japanese culture, defining the essence of Japanese style.

The book is divided into three main sections. In the first one (‘Irregular Beauty’), the author delineates the different aspects of Japanese culture and draws interesting connections between art, architecture, religion, philosophy and mythology. For example, he explains the aesthetics of the tea ceremony and its relationship to Zen philosophy as well as other subjects such as the function of the void in mythology, Buddhism and the arts.

The second part of the book (‘A Feeling of Nature’) follows a chronological path from ancient times to the present explaining more specifically how to interpret the different forms of Japanese art (literature, painting, sculpture, etc.).

The third part of the book ('Art Masters') contains short monographs on Japanese masters in the history of Japanese art and culture: Zeami Moto, the creator of "No" theatre; Hokusai, the master of woodblock printing; Yasunai Kawabata and Mishima Yukio, the writers; and the graphic designer, Tanaka Ikko.

Calza’s groundbreaking and insightful text is accompanied by 150 colour images of a great variety of examples from Japanese art and culture.

Contents and sections:

Irregular Beauty

 - Japan Style
 - Tea and the Aestetics of the Undefined
 - Images of Emptiness
 - The Seductiveness of Impermanence
 - Eccentric? No, Extraordinary
 - The Secret Message of No
 - Tears of the Mask
 - The Colours of Darkness
 - nterlude: Small but Great

The Feeling of Nature

 - The Harmony of Things
 - An Intimate Perception of Reality
 - The Dragon in Tranquillity
 - Nature's Magnificence
 - Nature and Beauty in the Floating World
 - Interlude: Eating with the Eyes

Masters of Art

 - Zeami: The Flower in the Demon
 - Hokusai: The Old Man Mad about Painting
 - Kawabata: The Power of the Ethereal
 - Mishima: When Will You Kill Yourself, Master?
 - Ikko: A Flash of Light

Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

Originating from Japan's Edo period (1615-1867), tansu refers mostly to wooden cabinets, boxes and chests. The gifted creators of this art were deservedly esteemed by Japanese society, leaving a rich and influential legacy. Their work was almost anonymous, though, and the history has remained in the shadows - until now. Japanese Cabinetry: The Art and Craft of Tansu is the first truly definitive volume on tansu, giving voice to the long-overlooked craftsmen and overdue respect for the craft. This book provides a broad representation of cabinetry designs along with contextual history, gleaning insights from the cabinetry itself. From trunks with wheels to shipboard safes, from kitchen cupboards to clothing chests, tansu were the receptacles of an age of economic expansion. Japanese Cabinetry chronicles not only the physical characteristics and details of tansu, but also the historical eras and societal factors that influenced the craft.

Japanese Erotica in Contemporary Art is a comprehensive exploration of contemporary erotic arts in Japan, covering more than 50 artists. 

Featuring work ranging from illustrations, dolls, contemporary art, comics, anime, and much more. Also included are bilingual overviews and expositions of the latest Japanese erotic art, with detailed analysis on each category. For this reason, this book is recommended for both men and women, art lover, Japanese subculture maniacs, "Gothic" and "Lolita" enthusiasts, and Anime fans. 

Featuring art by: Simon Yotsuya; Takato Yamamoto; Akira Uno; Hajime Sorayama; Junko Mizuno; Suehiro Maruo; Makiko Sugawa; Yoshifumi Hayashi; and many more.

This example-packed overview of contemporary Japanese illustration showcases the works of 100 of Japans most successful and exciting artists and designers.

The images embrace a huge range of styles, from traditional to futuristic, from classic ukiyo-e prints to the worlds of manga and anime. Some look towards urban street culture or build their own surreal dreamscapes, while others revisit a playful world of childhood innocence or explore darker realms of violence and terror. The book also includes ten interviews in which the illustrators discuss their work and what inspires them.

The range of amazing images and subjects in this book is hugely memorable, an exciting journey to the utterly idiosyncratic but wonderful world of the Japanese sensibility.

Японский художник учится рисовать одновременно с обучением письму. Он не сидит напротив модели или объекта природы и не стремится представить его таким, каким он ему кажется; он учится писать многочисленные сложные иероглифы своего языка путем постоянного повторения, таким образом, приобретая умение изображать некоторые узоры и традиционные формы, долгое время копируя принятые модели, передаваемые из поколения в поколение. Хотя такой творческий метод и не позволяет достигнуть той высокой степени мастерства, какого можно было бы добиться при тщательном изучении природы, но предоставляет мастеру декоративные возможности при создании рисунков, в которых японские художники обладают непревзойденным талантом.