The Indigenous Patterns and Hotel Okura.

NODA, Iwajiro. 
The Indigenous Patterns and Hotel Okura. 
Revised edition. 4to. 104pp with colour plates throughout. Silver stamped cloth boards in a cardboard slipcase. Texts in English and Japanese. Tokyo: Hotel Okura, 1982. 
Slipcase very sunned with a little foxing to the endpapers. 

A lovely book detailing the exquisite textiles and wallpaper patterns throughout the interiors of the iconic Hotel Okura in Tokyo. Built two years ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 by a diverse team of designers including architects Yoshiro Taniguchi and Hideo Kosaka, folk artist Shiko Munakata and potter Kenkichi Tomimoto. The design of the building adopted a modern aesthetic that would still reference the traditional colours, shapes and crafts of Japan. The Okura is now sadly demolished so this gorgeous book documents a lost relic of Japanese modernism.