Kyoko Endo, refined Japanese artist, designs traditional Japanese objects: dishes, vases and lacquered boxes, and creates them with the collaboration of sensitive and skilled craftsmen. From her ideas unique pieces take shape, objects that melt together the tradition of Japanese craftmanship with the modern way of living. This book collects the invitation cards that Kyoko Endo creates by hand one-by-one sending them to friends and customers announcing the exhibitions of her creations. The invitations themselves are little pieces of art, accompanied with short poems. Kyoko Endo is art director of Japanese art gallery Totoya. Her curiosity about an art of beauty that is extinct, or becoming extinct, is almost a form of greed. Kyoko fixes that beauty, and the people who create it, as strength and faith in the future. From Kyoko's designs, craft pottery acquires new plates, and those objects, transcending time, continue to pass from hand to hand to new users. Text in English, Japanese gItalian 95 colour illustrations
