HOW TO WRAP 5 EGGS
Hideyuki Oka
George Nelson (Foreword)
Hideyuki Oka, George Nelson (foreword): HOW TO WRAP 5 EGGS. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha and John Weatherhill, Inc., 1969. Second printing. First edition, 1967; originally printed in Japanese in 1965 be Bijutsu Shuppan-sha as "Nihon no Dento Pakkeji." A fine hardcover book with glossy white embossed boards, a black cloth spine, and a fine price-clipped dustjacket in a near-fine decorated corrugated cardboard slipcase. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. An exceptional copy of a book rarely found in collectible condition. 10 x 11.5 hardcover book with 204 pages with approx. 200 photos in matte-black gravure and full-color. Foreword by George Nelson. Photography by Michikazu Sakai. Beautifully designed and printed edition of this justly popular book of traditional Japanese packaging. More than two hundred photographs show "less is more" in a way that Mies never imagined; materials such as bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, and leaves transform ordinary everyday objects into works of art.
Contents
- Foreword by George Nelson
- Introduction by Hideyuki Oka
- Plates selected by Hideyuki Oka, photography by Michikazu Sakai
- Commentaries on the Plates by Hideyuki Oka
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