Sold for:
$3,500
$3,500
Tendo Japan, 1956 rosewood plywood, brass 17 w x 12 d x 15 h in (43 x 30 x 38 cm)
Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool combines the disparate traditions of Eastern philosophy and aesthetics with Western modernism.
Rather than drawing on Japanese furniture traditions, the stool's form suggests a reductive interpretation of a Japanese kimono.
Literature:0
Design Since 1945, Philadelphia Museum of Art, pg. 137
result: $3,500
print
Auctioneer:
Wright Auctions
Date:
2005-03-20
