Award-winning Japanese designer, Shigeru Uchida has worked on a wide range of projects from interior design and furniture to products and urban planning, in Japan and abroad. Divided into sections named ''Simplification of Space'', ''Surface and Space'' and ''Light, Hues and Spaces'' this superb book features the lobby of the Kyoto Hotel, the Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka (a collaboration with Aldo Rossi), the tea rooms 'Ji-an, So-an, and Gyo-an' and the Mojiko Hotel.
Uchida's works are included in the permanent collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts and others. His awards include the Mainichi Design Award, Best Store of the Year Special Award, and the Shokankyo Design Award Grand Prize. |
