A mediados de la década de los sesenta, Alex Kerr llegó por vez primera a Japón de la mano de su padre, un oficial de la armada norteamericana. En su retina quedó fijada la imagen de un país bello que, sobre todo en sus...
Jardines cuidados con mimo, puertas correderas y cálidos materiales naturales: los hogares japoneses son refugios de tranquilidad creados con una estética doméstica de minimalismo oriental. La arquitectura tradicional se mezcla con...
L'architettura tradizionale giapponese è così ricca e unica che migliorarla è quasi impossibile. Eppure, i designer e gli architetti giapponesi contemporanei continuano a trovare nuovi modi per rinnovarla traendo ispirazione dal...
Alex Kerr is an American writer, antiques collector and Japanologist. Lost Japan is his most famous work. He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Jap
Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during...
The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese âeconomic miracleâ failed to notice a key point: that in the pursuit of this miracle the Japanese had turned their country into a degraded concrete shambles - a wilderne...