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Leonard Koren, who lives in San Francisco and Tokyo, trained as an artist and architect. In the late 1960s he co-founded The Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad, a trompe l'oeil mural painting group that executed large-scale outdoor commissions in Southern California and Paris. Koren subsequently created WET: the Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, one of the premier avant-garde publications of the 1970s. More recently he has produced books about design and aesthetics. |
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Mixing analysis, anecdote, and observation, Leonard Koren once again reveals the key principles of practical wisdom at work in the world. |
In this book, arranging things--the placement of objects in three-dimensional composition--is considered as a form of rhetoric: persuasive communication. |
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An observant guide to the creative process and to the essential links among information, commerce, and visual form in our culture today. |
 A philosophical inquiry into Japanese "rock gardens" and what they might (and might not) mean. Photographed in Kyoto. |
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An extended essay in words and pictures on the quintessential Japanese aesthetic of imperfection and impermanence, modesty and humility. |
An investigation of bath philosophy and bathing environments around the world. Too many baths are overdesigned. The best baths are produced by an elemental process that is earthy, sensual, and animistic. |
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A guide to spiritual contentment through the careful exercise of daily ritual bathing. An excellent how-to guide to what is much more than a simple body maintenance routine. |
All of the titles listed here have been published by Stone Bridge Press and are available at your local bookseller or through Stone Bridge Press, at 1-800-947-7271 or sbp@stonebridge.com.