Cafe & Restaurant: 50 Outstanding Dinner, Beer and Cafe Restaurants (Shop Design Series , No. 3) [Hardcover]

Shotenkenchiku-Sha (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 188 pages
• Publisher: Shotenkenchiku-sha (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4785800348
• ISBN-13: 978-4785800345
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,138,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Plush, Informative, Suprisingly Soulful, November 23, 2009

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This review is from: Cafe & Restaurant: 50 Outstanding Dinner, Beer and Cafe Restaurants (Shop Design Series , No. 3) (Hardcover)

Bearing the title page title, "Cafe & Restaurant -- 3 50 Outstanding Dinner, Beer and Cafe Restaurants," this is a large-format hardback, cloth over boards in dustjacket, 188 pp with color illustrations throughout. English and Japanese side-by-side. Organized in categories: Dinner & Theme Restaurants, Beer Restaurants and Steak Restaurants, Cafe Restaurants and Fastfood Restaurants, Shop Data.

Over 44 Japanese restaurants from the mid-1990's are profiled. For each you get a description, interior shots, floorplans, and some exteriors.

A lot of these books are useful for capturing defunct trends. This book favors the handsome over the timely. I wouldn't mind living in some of these interiors. (With a few exceptions: "Harajuku HOOPTOWN" Ha!)

Here's the thing: the photography here is surprisingly warm and evocative, unlike much of the commercial photography one finds documenting late 20th century interiors.