JAPAN GIVES YOU NEW IDEAS FOR YOUR HOME
The Caronia's visit to Japan next spring will give you your long awaited chance to observe what the Japanese people have worked out for themselves through the centuries -- developments in the field of art and design that will give you scintillating new ideas for your home and garden.
It has become a new fad in the United States to borrow from the Japanese simple practical ideas for home beautification as well as ultra-modern art forms that fit the current rage in modern painting.
Simplicity is the keynote struck by Japanese tastes. Their houses are unpretentious on the outside, and whistle-clean inside. The flower arrangements in a niche or a corner are world-famous. Their passion for a beautifully-arranged view through one of their sliding-window openings is renown.
Now, when you reach Japan, you will observe all this, and if you want to do something about it, your steps will take you to the famous shops. At the outstanding silk showrooms in beautiful Kyoto, for example, you will be able to buy bolts of the simplest, yet most beautifully coloured, scenes for dresses or for wall tapestries.
When it comes to damascene work for personal utensils, lovely Japanese motifs are etched in the steel. As for lacquer, beautiful jewel boxes, cigarette boxes, tea sets, serving platters, and other gifts for your home are done in limpid color, with extreme simplicity of thought in the design.
Naturally, pearls from Japan's cultivated oysters, will typify the simple, quiet beauty that produces the age-old stunning effect. But, for contrast, remember that you can select glorious colour among Japan's famous silks to make yourself combinations, a robe or a dinner gown of the finest of Oriental sunbursts.
[Produced for the Great World Cruise departing New York 29 January 1966]