Surfing Indonesia: A Search for the World's Most Perfect Waves (Periplus Action Guides) - Softcover

Lueras, Leonard; Lueras, Lorca

9789625938530: Surfing Indonesia: A Search for the World's Most Perfect Waves (Periplus Action Guides)

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ISBN 10: 9625938532 ISBN 13: 9789625938530

Publisher: Periplus Editions (Hong Kong) Ltd, 2002

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Surfing Indonesia: A Search for the World's Most Perfect Waves is a guidebook to surfing at some of the most incredible surfing destinations in the world. Explore the history of Indonesia surfing and gain some insight from surfers alike. Surfing Indonesia takes you on a safari, an ultimate surfers dream; from the huge island of Sumatra in the west and Indonesia's "Far East" through Java, Bali, and Lombok Sumbawa. Detailed maps of important surfing sites Insightful essays by surfers for surfers More than 120 action pumped photographs If you like surfing or you are an inspiring surfer; this book will help guide you through the tips and tricks of the sport, including travel advisories, medical precautions, and safety hazards signs. And of course the spectacular views and places to surf in Indonesia are will be made aware to you.

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Book Description

Super Potato Design is the first full-length book to present the work and conceptual ideas of the internationally renowned Japanese design firm Super Potato, founded by Takashi Sugimoto.

Super Potato's powerful designs for the interiors of restaurants, shops and hotels, as well as Takashi Sugimoto's designs for tea ceremony spaces and utensils, are richly complex compositions of materials which create simple, strong spaces.

Using traditional Japanese building materials such as bamboo, wood, and stone, but crating original yet timeless spaces, Super Potato's designs avoid specific stylistic characterizations and short-lived fashion. By finding contemporary expression for important concepts present in traditional Japan and combining materials in unexpected ways to create exciting spaces, Super Potato's work has had a significant impact on interior design in Japan and throughout Asia.

Super Potato Design is generously illustrated with 320 full-color photographs by the respected Japanese photographer Yoshio Shiratori, who has recorded Super Potatos projects since the firm's conception in 1973. Architect and Japan scholar Mira Locher introduces the ideas and influences of Takashi Sugimoto, the founder and principle designer of Super Potato, and provides a thorough explanation of each project. Architectural drawings further describe the projects. A forward by Tadao Anso, interviews between Takashi Sugimoto and architect Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama, and also graphic designer Kenya Hara, explore the ideas relevant to Japanese designers today. A list of the Complete Works of Super Potato rounds off the book.

About the Author

The bali-based father-and-son team of Leonard and Lorca Lueras was the driving force behind Surfing indonesia. Leonard Lueras is a writer/photographer/publisher who has produced some 30-plus books about the Asia-Pacific region. He is most well known in surfing as the author-producer of Surfing, The Ultimate Pleasure, an award-winning and best-selling book about the history of surfing. He is also the editor of Periplus' Surfing Hawaii, in the same series. Lorca Lueras, now 20, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and began surfing on the island of bali at age 9.Photography/Text: Numerous writers and photographers have contributed to Surfing indonesia, including bernie baker, bill boyum, Jason Childs, Jeff Divine, Dick Hoole, Gerry Lopez, Jack McCoy, rusty Miller, Tom Servais, Tim Stripling, Arya Subyakto and Peter Troy.

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