The Influence of Japanese Art on Design

by Hannah Sigur

This stunning book explores the story of Japan as the catalyst of modern design in the late 19th century. Art historian Hannah Sigur juxtaposes glass, silver and metal arts, ceramic, textiles, furniture, jewelry, advertising, and packaging with a spectrum of Japanese materials ranging from one-of-a-kind art crafts to mass-produced ephemera, showing the ways that Japanese arts and ideas about Japan changed the world.

In elegant prose and with more than 200 photographs in this beautifully illustrated book, Sigur examines motifs, materials, and methods of the influence of Japanese art on design, and follows the transformations from traditionalism into modernism that marked the developments from the Aesthetic movement into Arts and Crafts and finally to Frank Lloyd Wright's vision, showing how the Japanese model transformed design and concept.

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