Living with Japanese Gardens shows how to capture and integrate an authentic Japanese aesthetic into any landscape plan. Lisa Parramore divides her time between writing about Japanese culture and designing Japanese-style gardens in the San Francisco Bay area. Chadine Flood Gong is an accomplished interior designer, garden designer and a former professor of Asian history who has taught in universities in California as well as in Japan. Svein Olslund, Lisa's husband, is an accomplished photographer.