the elements discussed above should not be a prescription for design, but rather an inspiration and guide. “Please do not put a Japanese shoji screen into your house–that's so 1980,” he says.

Of course, the materials used and added elements included change through the years, but the tradition of the genkan and the Japanese style decor stays ... interior of the house," says Graham.

merging modernist architecture and Japanese house design in a thoroughly contemporary piece of domestic bliss. ‘Much of our design leans toward the ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn, enabling us to ...