Create a design vocabulary of persuasive arrangements in your home, studio, or workplace Arranging Things A Rhetoric of Object Placement LEONARD KOREN Illustrations by Nathalie Du Pasquier 96 pp, 6 x 7 1/2", paper, 4-color printing, 29 illustrations, ISBN 1-880656-82-5, $19.95

from the author of THE GRAPHIC DESIGN COOKBOOK and WABI-SABI Just as his classic bestseller Wabi-Sabi explored the quintessential Japanese aesthetic, Leonard Koren’s new book uncovers the underlying principles that govern how Western designers arrange things in three-dimensional compositions. Inspired by Greek and Roman notions of rhetoric—the ancient art of argument and delivery—Koren elucidates the elements of arranging rhetoric that all designers instinctively use in everything from floral compositions to interior decorating. Those who master Koren’s rhetoric of object placement will have the ability to persuade, uplift, and confound their audience. Not a how-to but instead a manifesto of theory and insight, this book will change the way you see, and arrange, your world. Trained as an architect and artists, LEONARD KOREN lives in San Francisco and Tokyo. He created and published WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, one of the premier avant garde publicationsof the 1970s. His other books include Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Gardens of Gravel and Sand, Undesigning the Bath, and How to Take a Japanese Bath.

Other titles of interest by Leonard Koren from Stone Bridge Press 13 Books Wabi-Sabi How to Take a Japanese Bath Undesigning the Bath Gardens of Gravel and Sand