116 pp. profusely illustrated volume of residential home design, construction, and interior design including fixtures, construction materials, and color palettes. Quarto (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches). Light orange publisher's boards with original photo-illustrated dust jacket. Very light toning and dust-staining, overall excellent. Tokyo: Shufu No Tomosha, 1954.

Takeshi Nishikawa was an important post-War Japanese architect. His 1952 article "Contemporary Architecture and Modern Art" in Kenchiku Bunka was one of the earliest articles to highlight the Japanese influence on contemporary architecture outside of Japan. He also authored other works including "Formation of Japanese Farm-houses" in 1958 and "Japan-ness in the Expression of Contemporary Architecture 1" in 1957. ('Japonica in Architecture', Hiroshi Emoto, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, Aesthetics [JTLA], Vol. 45, 2020)

This slim volume, part of the "Jutaku Shinsho" series, contains numerous case studies on post-war Japanese home construction. Predominately illustrated in black and white, there a number of pages highlighted with a single feature color, such as orange or beige, and a few illustrations in full color. The full-color illustrations depict harmonious color palettes for exterior house paint and for interior design.

The illustrations scattered throughout include all phases of construction of a modern home, builders and designers, finished homes, floor plans, technical drawings, diagrams, and views of interiors including types of storage, modern bathroom fixtures, lighting, living rooms, and women in domestic spaces.

Extremely scarce; as of July 2026, OCLC locates only a single holding of this work at an institutional library in North America.

Book ID: 53744

Price: $600.00