Escape Floor Light by Ango, Handcrafted Silk Cocoon Shelter Floor Lamp

White space floor light with a diffuser in natural colour silk cocoons and with a hand cast concrete base. The magic of the light comes from each co...

Escape Transceiver Space is presented in Bangkok Design Week 2023 as a refuge in a world of chaos. It is a sensory space for the mind representing an allegory about protection and ca...

Cascadence table light is developed from Cascadence (ceiling) in the same organic form, using natural colour of silk cocoon created with Ango’s unique handcrafted technique. The desi...

The table light design forms an early part of Ango’s story of fusing nature and technology, with the diffuser design an early example of the use of natural silk cocoons assembled on ...

For Paradise pendant lighting design, the miracle of each silk cocoon being formed by its creator is taken and exploited to the full by illuminating it from within with two light sou...

Cascadence ceiling light is uniquely created and handcrafted by Ango using individual hand-selected silk cocoons. The design continues Angos’ narrativ...

19th century antique Japanese Meiji bronze floor lamp. This finely cast, well composed, pedestal lamp depicts mythical creatures on the base, cranes in high relief on the stem are...

Early 20th century cast bronze floor lamp with neolithic Chinese motif 13" diameter at the base x 74" high The wiring needs to be updated (please see images) This is truly an exception cast bronze lamp. The Chinese motifs around the base also have a strong resemblance to Mayan motifs...

Custom designed for our 1stdibs clients This fine floor lamp in our unique Arts & Crafts tower form design emits stunning light through master artisan hand cut, hand hammered, and...

Custom designed for our 1stdibs clients This fine floor lamp in our unique tower form design emits stunning light through over 100 hand cut and hand pierced copper panels- a wonde...

Handcrafted Middle Eastern Lebanese mosaic marquetry wood box. Small octagonal walnut Syrian style box intricately decorated with Moorish motif desi...

As part of our Japanese works of art collection we are delighted to offer this charming Meiji period 1868-1912 embroidery of a chin dog aside a spray of peacock feathers and by one of the most famous textile company’s of the period, the Iida Takashimaya company, the breathtaking and simply captivating detail of the silkwork demonstrates some of the finest possible stitching methods available at that time and not surpassed to this day, the silk picture is cushioned and housed within its original black lacquered wood frame and importantly bearing the original and scarce Iida Takashimaya factory label to the reverse, an absolute masterpiece from a golden period of textile production, this picture would light up the wall of any room particularly your Japanese themed space . Provenance : UK Collection . Featured in – 2020 Vision of an enlightened ruler exhibition – plate 39 Literature : There is little doubt that a major part of the phenomenon of Japanese works of art exploding onto the worldwide stage leading up to and during the Meiji period was bought about by the Textile manufacturers of Kyoto, the most recognized of which will undoubtedly be the Nishimura company, founded in Kyoto in 1670 as textile traders, It was the 12th generation manager Nishimura Sozayemon (1855-1935) aged just 17 and remarkably adopted into the family as the son of a Chinese scholar who took the company to its dizzy heights. As early as 1873 just one year into his tenure the company were exhibiting at expositions and even during that early period the company picked up significant awards and medals with recognition both nationally and overseas , particularly in Paris in 1878 , thereafter the factory moved to new premises in Kyoto , presumably having outgrown their original site , this move coincided with the building of the new Imperial palace in Tokyo where Nishimura were commissioned to provide 64 embroidered wall panels...