Word: crossbeam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furniture that doubles as sculpture-that are more palatial than academic but echo traditional Japanese motives. The most unabashedly Japanese of Maki's designs to date, however, are in his 18-bedroom guesthouse for foreign trainees of the YKK zipper-manufacturing concern near Komatsu. Here, shoji, entrance hall, crossbeam and other elements of ancient Japanese architecture are reinterpreted in ways that are at once both strange and familiar...