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Kaj Franck / KF2 HORS D'OEUVRE DISH(BROWN) / Arabia Finland
By Kaj Franck, Arabia of Finland
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
KF2 was designed in 1957 and manufactured from 1958 to 1962.
A geometric-shaped appetiser dish. One of Kai Franck's masterpieces, combining structural beauty with functional elegance...
Category
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Ceramic
Blitz table lamp green Stilnovo Italian modern
By Stilnovo, Trabucco, Vecchi, Volpi
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Steel table or desk lamp designed by Trabucco, Vecchi & Volpi for Stilnovo. It was designed in the 70s. Color is green, cable is black.
Sculptural form made by bending one steel pla...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Hiroyuki Nishimura Sculptural bench 1 Tribal Style
By Hiroyuki Nishimura
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Weighing Worlds
Sculptural bench
Material: Zelkova
This work is carved from log with some kinds of chainsaws.
Most of wood used for his works are unable to use anything, these woods...
Category
2010s Japanese Tribal Tokyo
Materials
Wood
$16,000 / item
Erik Höglund / PEOPLE BOTTLE(GREY CARBORUNDUM) H875 / Boda Glasbruk / 1950s
By Erik Höglund
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Launched in 1956, this series uses tiny granules of carborundum (silicon carbide) instead of the potato or sawdust that had previously been used to create bubbles.
Carborundum is a ...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Blown Glass
Saara Hopea / "BUBBLE" VASE SH122 / Nuutajärvi
By Saara Hopea-Untracht, Nuutajärvi Notsjõ
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Saara Hopea is a Finnish female designer.
She specialised in interior design at the Central School of Applied Arts in Helsinki, and after graduating, she started her career as a furn...
Category
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Blown Glass
Kyllikki Salmenhaara / Creamer / Arabia Art Department 1950s
By Kyllikki Salmenhaara, Arabia of Finland
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Kyllikki Salmenhaara was Finland's most accomplished ceramic artist, who refined her exceptional pottery skills into an art form, as well as a researcher and educator who devoted her...
Category
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Ceramic
Tapio Wirkkala / VASE / Iittala
By Iittala, Tapio Wirkkala
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
This piece is made using a special glass developed by Iittala called “Q Colour,” which features a pastel-toned, semi-transparent blue glass that emits a unique glow when light passes...
Category
1940s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Rolf Sinnemark / "CUBE" TEA POT 401 / Rorstrand / 1985
By Rolf Sinnemark, Rörstrand
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
ROLF SINNEMARK is a Swedish designer and glass artist.
He studied industrial design at KONSTFACK in Stockholm. After working in the USA, he was with BODA (merged with KOSTA BODA) fro...
Category
1980s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Ceramic
Hiroyuki Nishimura Zougei Sculptural Stool Side Table 8
By Hiroyuki Nishimura
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: Aquatic Plants
Sculptural stool or side table by Hiroyuki Nishimura and Zougei carved furniture
Material: Cherry
This work is carved from log with some kinds of chainsaws.
Most...
Category
2010s Japanese Tribal Tokyo
Materials
Wood
Hiroyuki Nishimura Sculptural low tray Table Amanokaguyama
By Hiroyuki Nishimura
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: Amanogakuyama
Sculptural low tray table by Hiroyuki Nishimura and Zougei carved furniture
Material: Zelkova
This work is carved from log with some kinds of chainsaws.
Most of w...
Category
2010s Japanese Tribal Tokyo
Materials
Wood
Balsform Sofa Y2K style design space age Idee Japanese design
By Marc Newson, Karim Rashid, Idée Japan
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
White flux leather lounge chair. Alex Strub designed it in the late 1990s for Idee Japan.
As we can’t know the exact from with this image. Balsform Sofa is wider front than back sid...
Category
1990s Japanese Modern Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Ryosuke Harashima Contemporary Zen sculptural lamp straw coat
By Ryosuke Harashima
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: Cassini, Staring into the Void
Sculptural floor lamp which Japanese traditional straw coat is transformed into. Straw hat comes with the lamp. These straw items are antique ove...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Tokyo
Materials
Brass
Oblio stool side table shelf Von Robinson Y2K style design space age
By Marc Newson, Eero Aarnio, Moroso
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Oblio is a stool, also side table or shelf. Von Robinson designed it in the early 2000s for Moroso.
Set of two. One has a blue cushion top. Others has a reversible purple cushion ...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Tribal Tokyo
Materials
Fabric, Plastic
Legless Floor Chair Japanese Modern Style Bentwood Chair
By Studio Jig
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Legless floor chair in the Japanese modern style. In tradition Japanese style, floor chair is set on traditional Tatami Igusa floor along with tabl...
Category
2010s Japanese Modern Tokyo
Materials
Wood
Low rocking Chair Japanese Modern Style Bentwood Chair
By Studio Jig
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Bentwood rocking chair in the Japanese modern style. Made of Yoshino cedar which is a famous wood grown in the Yoshino district in Japan. It has characte...
Category
2010s Japanese Modern Tokyo
Materials
Wood
Michael Young pendant lamp Y2K style space age 90s
By Michael Young
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Pendant lamp designed by Michael Young in the mid 90s. It is suitable for Y2K style pop interior. Also, Mid-century style and Space Age style.
It was produced by Japanese furniture ...
Category
1990s Japanese Space Age Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Ross Lovegrove Bluebelle chair Y2K style design space age
By Driade, Ross Lovegrove
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
White and transparent combination chair. Ross Lovegrove designed it in 1996 for Driade.
This chair is a chair that Ross Lovegrove redesigned from George Nelson's DAF chair. Highly ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Pergamo Artemide Wall Lamp Angelo Mangiarotti
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Artemide
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Pergamo Mid-century modern style wall lamp. Designed by Angelo Mangiarotti in the 80s.
Steel base with two light bulbs. Shade is sandblasted glass.
Light source Two of E27 60W ligh...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Aluminum
$650 Sale Price
35% Off
Hiroyuki Nishimura Sculptural lamp Tribal Style
By Hiroyuki Nishimura
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
El Nido
Sculptural lamp.
Material: Japanese yew
This work is carved from log with some kinds of chainsaws.
Most of wood used for his works are unable to use anything, these woods a...
Category
2010s Japanese Tribal Tokyo
Materials
Wood
Artemide Nessino Giancarlo Mattioli transparent model Y2K design
By Giancarlo Mattioli, Artemide
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Masterpiece table lamp of Space Age design.Original was released from the 60s by Artemide. It is transparent model released only from the late 90s u...
Category
1990s Italian Space Age Tokyo
Materials
Plastic
Shiro Kuramata Pink Vase
By Shiro Kuramata
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Shiro Kuramata's acrylic flower vase. Small model. Acrylic block which pink is inside and glass tube.
Category
1980s Japanese Post-Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Glass, Acrylic
$2,500 / item
Sindbad Table Vico Magistretti Cassina Italian Modern Design
By Vico Magistretti, Cassina
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Sindbad coffee table
Designed by Vico Magistretti for Cassina. Half oval shaped table designed for center table. Used as low console table put in front of the wall. Probably it can be used as TV side...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Wood
$1,625 Sale Price
35% Off
Neos Wall Clock 2 George Sowden Nathalie du Pasquier Postmodern
By Lorenz, George Sowden, Memphis Milano, Nathalie du Pasquier
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Neos clock designed by George Sowden and Nathalie du Pasquier in the 80s. Neos is the brand run by Lorenz clock company in Italy. They were designed a lot o...
Category
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Plastic
Wood and Rope Chair attributed to Adrien Audoux and Frida Minet, 1950s, France
By Adrien Audoux and Frida Minnet
Located in Tokyo, Tokyo
A rare and evocative low lounge chair attributed to Adrien Audoux and Frida Minet. The piece bears many hallmarks of their distinctive style — sculptural simplicity, handcrafted deta...
Category
1950s French Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Rope, Wood
Helene Tynell / FOREST / Riihimaen Lasi
By Helena Tynell, Riihimäen Lasi Oy
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Helena Tynell is a Finnish female designer.
After graduating from the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Helsinki in 1943, she began her career as a designer at TAITO as an assista...
Category
1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Art Glass
Hiroyuki Nishimura Sculptural Light Large 2 Japanese Paper Shade
By Hiroyuki Nishimura
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Cardinal lamp
Sculpture by Hiroyuki Nishimura.
Material cypress, washi Japanese paper, animal glue
In case of ordering, we will make new one.
Artis...
Category
2010s Japanese Tribal Tokyo
Materials
Wood, Paper
Hiroyuki Nishimura Zougei Sculptural Side Table Stool 26 Tribal Glamping
By Zougei
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: Pancake
Sculptural stool by Zogei carved furniture
Material: Zelkova
This work is carved from log with some kinds of chainsaws.
Most of wood...
Category
2010s Japanese Tribal Tokyo
Materials
Wood
ARKO Wall Art12 Contemporary Art Japanese Craft Rice Straw Art Wall Sculpture
By ARKO
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Hand-sewed rice straw art by ARKO.
Title: Composition Marcato (A)
This is one of the series named "Composition XX"
Her works have the feelings of...
Category
2010s Japanese Organic Modern Tokyo
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Straw
Glass Pendulum Clock Takashi Kato Postmodern, 1980s Japanese Design
By Nathalie du Pasquier, Memphis Milano
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Glass pendulum clock by Sessa. It can be used as both standing on the table and hanging on the wall. Takashi Kato designed a lot of clocks in the 1980s-19...
Category
1990s Japanese Post-Modern Tokyo
Materials
Glass, Plastic
$250 Sale Price / item
50% Off
Spiral Clock B #2 black Shiro Kuramata Japanese Zen Minimal Postmodern
By Shiro Kuramata
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Spiral clock B #2 black body designed by Shiro Kuramata. Dial is inside acrylic edge rounded shade.
Category
1980s Japanese Minimalist Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Mirto Flower Vase a Ettore Sottsass Japanese Urushi Laquer Model
By Ettore Sottsass, Marutomi
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Mirto flower vase designed by Ettore Sottsass for Marutomi. This model is limited Japanese urushi laquer model.
Japanese traditional urushi pigment is made from natural urushi tree,...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Post-Modern Tokyo
Materials
Plastic
Comme Des Garçons No.2 Chair Rei Kawakubo
By Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçons
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Comme des garçons no.2 chair.
Iconic CDG chair designed by Rei Kawakubo in 1983. This piece is reproduced model in 2017 for Comme des Garcons special event.
There is a slight trace...
Category
1980s Japanese Minimalist Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Robert Venturi Sheraton chair for Knoll Postmodern 80s
By Robert Venturi, Knoll
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Robert Venturi chair for knoll
Model: Sheraton
Silkscreen printed pattern on black plywood. Rare model in famous Venturi's chairs in Knoll collection.
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Plywood
Alien Chair Carlo Forcolini 1980s Design
By Carlo Forcolini, Alias
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Alien chair design by Carlo Forcolini in the 1980s.
Yellow wood seat and back. Frame is painted steel. Manufactured by Alias Italy.
Category
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Steel
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Erik Hoglund / Vase 'Blue Grey Carbrundum' / Boda Glasbruk / 1950s
By Erik Höglund
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
This series, which was released in 1956, uses carborundum (silicon carbide), unlike previous products that used potato skins and sawdust to generate air bubbles. It has a unique form...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Blown Glass
Foscarini Coco red Aldo Cibic Y2K style design
By Aldo Cibic, Foscarini
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Table lamp in red. It was designed in 2000 by Aldo Cibic. Shade is made of glass. Les is made of steel painted.
It's the style in Y2K interior and design. Also really great example ...
Category
1990s Italian Space Age Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Spiral Clock B Shiro Kuramata Japanese Zen Minimal Postmodern
By Shiro Kuramata
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Spiral clock B designed by Shiro Kuramata. Dial is inside acrylic edge rounded shade.
Category
1980s Japanese Minimalist Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Cartier Panthere Ring Certificate Diamond Emerald Onyx Platinum US 6 1/4
By Cartier
Located in Tokyo, JP
■Item No.: 24290719
■Brand: Cartier
■Product Name: Panthère de Cartier Ring
■Material: Diamond, Emerald, Onyx, PT950 Platinum
■Weight: Approx. 26.9g
■Ring Size: Approx. EU：53/USA：6.2...
Category
1990s French Tokyo
Materials
Diamond, Emerald, Onyx, Platinum
Tapio Wirkkala / ART OBJECT 3235 / Iittala
By Tapio Wirkkala, Iittala
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Manufactured between 1947 and 1949.
One of Tapio Wirkkala's earliest designs for IITTALA. This crystal-glass piece was made using the free-blown technique, which creates bubbles insi...
Category
1940s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Hiroyuki Nishimura Zougei Sculptural Stool Side Table 4_1
By Hiroyuki Nishimura
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: △◯◼️ triangle, circle, square
Sculptural stool or side table by Hiroyuki Nishimura and Zougei carved furniture
Material: Cherry
This work is carved from log with some kinds of ...
Category
2010s Japanese Tribal Tokyo
Materials
Wood
Kaj Franck / "KREMLIN BELL" KF500/1500 / Nuutajarvi
By Kaj Franck, Nuutajärvi Notsjõ
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Designed in 1957.
Manufactured from 1957 to 1968.
One of Kai Franck's representative works, it was exhibited at the 1957 Milan Triennale, where it won the Grand Prix.
Designed as a ...
Category
1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Contemporary Japanese Chochin Floor Lamp Limited Edition #1 Zen Washi
By Ryosuke Harashima
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: OBAKE A
Contemporary style Japanese Washi Japanese traditional paper shade floor lamp. Washi shade is famous as Isamu Noguchi Akari lightings.
Base is made of brass. Limited pattern painted model. Edition of 3+1AP
E26,27 light bulb.
Available to work with 100-250V.
Artist statement
In Japan, there is an animist belief that the soul dwells in old tools that have passed a long time and turns into spirits such as "Youkai" or "OBAKE." Its existence lurks in the darkness of everyday life, sometimes causing fear and sometimes entertaining.
This lantern is not an old tool, but it is made by the historic "Kojima Shoten", where the 10th generation are craftsmen in Kyoto. It's rare nowadays, and it's a style in which lanterns are made from bamboo bones to assembling papers and painting in one workshop and go. So, I decided to transform the polite crafted Japanese lanterns, which have been run through a traditional history, into a modern and pop style. It's not just OBAKE lurking in the darkness, but an existence who snuggles up to us as a more sophisticated being.
These one-eyed OBAKE have a meaningful look that originated in ancient Sanskrit culture. The red-eye "A [a]" is the facial expression that is the first pronunciation to make a sound in Sanskrit, which means "truth" and "spirit of inquiry" at the same time. The blue-eyed "UN [hu?]" expresses the pronunciation to close the sound, and at the same time means "wisdom" and "nirvana." There is also the idea that describing the beginning and end of the universe is represented by considering the "A" and "UN" as a pair. In Asia, it is a common sight to see a pair of guardian statues...
Category
2010s Japanese Edo Tokyo
Materials
Brass
Hiroyuki Nishimura Sculptural Side Table Daifuku
By Hiroyuki Nishimura
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: Daifuku
Sculptural low table by Hiroyuki Nishimura and Zougei carved furniture
Material: Zelkova
This work is carved from log with some kinds of chainsaws.
Most of wood used fo...
Category
2010s Japanese Tribal Tokyo
Materials
Wood
Kaj Franck / "KREMLIN BELL" KF500/1500 / Nuutajarvi
By Kaj Franck, Nuutajärvi Notsjõ
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Designed in 1957.
Manufactured from 1957 to 1968.
One of Kai Franck's representative works, it was exhibited at the 1957 Milan Triennale, where it won the Grand Prix.
Designed as a ...
Category
1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Van Cleef&Arpels Zodiac Medal Cancer Mini Charm 18K Yellow Gold
By Van Cleef & Arpels
Located in Tokyo, JP
■Item No.: 23190401
■Brand: Van Cleef & Arpels
■Item Name: Zodiac Medal Cancer Mini Charm
■Ref./Model No.: –
■Material: 750 K18 Yellow Gold
■Weight: Approx. 7.0g
■Size: Approx. W0.74...
Category
1970s French Vintage Tokyo
Materials
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Erik Höglund / PEOPLE BOTTLE(GREY CARBORUNDUM) H887 / Boda Glasbruk / 1950s
By Erik Höglund
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Launched in 1956, this series uses tiny granules of carborundum (silicon carbide) instead of the potato or sawdust that had previously been used to create bubbles.
Carborundum is a ...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Blown Glass
Bubble pendant lamp Foscarini Y2K style space age 90s
By Foscarini, Karim Rashid, Valerio Bottin
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Pendant lamp designed by Valerio Bottin around 2000. It is suitable for Y2K style pop interior. Also, Mid-century style and Space Age style.
It was produced by Foscarini. It's mad...
Category
1990s Italian Space Age Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Kyllikki Salmenhaara / Mug / Arabia Art Department 1950s
By Arabia of Finland, Kyllikki Salmenhaara
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Kyllikki Salmenhaara was Finland's most accomplished ceramic artist, who refined her exceptional pottery skills into an art form, as well as a researcher and educator who devoted her...
Category
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Ceramic
Wilhelm Kåge / ARGENTA VASE / Gustavsberg / 1941
By Gustavsberg, Wilhelm Kage
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Wilhelm Kage studied painting at art school and worked as a poster artist after graduation.
As art director of Gustavsberg from 1917, he laid the foundations for modern design in Swe...
Category
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Stoneware
Stig Lindberg / CHESS PIECE "QUEEN" / Gustavsberg
By Stig Lindberg, Gustavsberg
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Queen chess piece designed by Stig Lindberg.
Since his assistant, Dan Grip, was a chess player, he began developing chess pieces in the early 1960s, and in 1973, they were produced ...
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Porcelain
Kaj Franck / BLACK SWAN(UNIQUE PIECE) / Nuutajarvi
By Kaj Franck, Nuutajärvi Notsjõ
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Filigree glass, made in Nuutajarvi in the late 1850s using techniques inspired by Venetian glass.
The technique, which had fallen into disuse, was revived by Kaj Franck in the early ...
Category
1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Shiro Kuramata Spiral Ashtray1 Minimalist Japanese Design
By Shiro Kuramata
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Shiro Kuramata's ashtray1. Made of black aluminum.
Rather optical art object than usual astray.
Category
1980s Japanese Minimalist Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Aluminum
Lamperti wall lamp yellow Italian modern 70s
By Lamperti
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Vivid color wall lamp named "Lucciole." Yellow steel shade is able to tilt and turn.
Set of two wall lamps in yellow.
Light source E27 light bulbs.
Using with 100-120V Able to use...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Steel
Kyllikki Salmenhaara / Mug / Arabia Art Department 1950s
By Arabia of Finland, Kyllikki Salmenhaara
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Kyllikki Salmenhaara was Finland's most accomplished ceramic artist, who refined her exceptional pottery skills into an art form, as well as a researcher and educator who devoted her...
Category
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Ceramic
BVLGARI Diamonds Stainless Steel Serpenti Tubogas Watch Ref.101816 SP35S Quartz
By Bulgari
Located in Tokyo, JP
■Item No.25020129
■Brand: BVLGARI
■Product Name: Serpenti Tubogas Watch
■Model/Reference Number: 101816 / SP35S
■Material: Diamond, Stainless Steel
■Wrist Size: S size Approx. 135mm ...
Category
2010s Italian Tokyo
Materials
Diamond, Steel, Stainless Steel
Kyllikki Salmenhaara / Mug / Arabia Art Department 1950s
By Arabia of Finland, Kyllikki Salmenhaara
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Kyllikki Salmenhaara was Finland's most accomplished ceramic artist, who refined her exceptional pottery skills into an art form, as well as a researcher and educator who devoted her...
Category
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Ceramic
Kyllikki Salmenhaara / Mug / Arabia Art Department 1950s
By Kyllikki Salmenhaara, Arabia of Finland
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Kyllikki Salmenhaara was Finland's most accomplished ceramic artist, who refined her exceptional pottery skills into an art form, as well as a researcher and educator who devoted her...
Category
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Ceramic
HARRY WINSTON Symbols Pear Shaped Diamond 1.90ct Cross Platinum Pendant Necklace
By Harry Winston
Located in Tokyo, JP
■ Product Number: 24020101
■ Reference Retail Price: JPY 3,058,000 (February 2024)
■ Brand: Harry Winston
■ Product Name: Symbols by Harry Winston,Pear-Shaped Diamond Cross Pendant
■...
Category
2010s American Tokyo
Materials
Diamond, Platinum
Contemporary Japanese Chochin Floor Lamp Limited Edition #2 Zen Washi
By Ryosuke Harashima
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: OBAKE UN
Contemporary style Japanese Washi Japanese traditional paper shade floor lamp. Washi shade is famous as Isamu Noguchi Akari lightings.
Base is made of brass. Limited pattern painted model. Edition of 3+1AP
E26,27 light bulb.
Available to work with 100-250V.
Artist statement
In Japan, there is an animist belief that the soul dwells in old tools that have passed a long time and turns into spirits such as "Youkai" or "OBAKE." Its existence lurks in the darkness of everyday life, sometimes causing fear and sometimes entertaining.
This lantern is not an old tool, but it is made by the historic "Kojima Shoten", where the 10th generation are craftsmen in Kyoto. It's rare nowadays, and it's a style in which lanterns are made from bamboo bones to assembling papers and painting in one workshop and go. So, I decided to transform the polite crafted Japanese lanterns, which have been run through a traditional history, into a modern and pop style. It's not just OBAKE lurking in the darkness, but an existence who snuggles up to us as a more sophisticated being.
These one-eyed OBAKE have a meaningful look that originated in ancient Sanskrit culture. The red-eye "A [a]" is the facial expression that is the first pronunciation to make a sound in Sanskrit, which means "truth" and "spirit of inquiry" at the same time. The blue-eyed "UN [hu?]" expresses the pronunciation to close the sound, and at the same time means "wisdom" and "nirvana." There is also the idea that describing the beginning and end of the universe is represented by considering the "A" and "UN" as a pair. In Asia, it is a common sight to see a pair of guardian statues...
Category
2010s Japanese Edo Tokyo
Materials
Brass
Kyllikki Salmenhaara / Mug / Arabia Art Department 1950s
By Arabia of Finland, Kyllikki Salmenhaara
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
Kyllikki Salmenhaara was Finland's most accomplished ceramic artist, who refined her exceptional pottery skills into an art form, as well as a researcher and educator who devoted her...
Category
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tokyo
Materials
Ceramic
