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Sori Yanagi Butterfly Stool in Molded Blonde Rosewood for Tendo Mokko
About the Item
The Butterfly Stool by Sori Yanagi, (1915 - 2011) an iconic figure in Japanese industrial design. Originally created in 1954 using the moulded plywood technique that had been newly created by the Eameses. This model is most likely a later edition c2000.
Composed of two identical curved pieces of plywood, with brass fittings, often seen as butterfly wings, of which it gets its name. A second one is in an additional listing.
"True beauty is not made. It is born naturally". Yanagi did many paper models of this stool, as opposed to only working on the drawing board.
- Creator:Sori Yanagi (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)Depth: 12 in (30.48 cm)Seat Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:2000
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Chicago, IL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU819843327862
Sori Yanagi
Sōri Yanagi was a Japanese product designer. Born in 1915 in Tokyo, Japan. His father was Yanagi Sōetsu, founder of the Japanese folk crafts mingei movement, which celebrated the beauty of everyday objects, and the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum (Nihon Mingeikan). Yanagi entered Tokyo Art School in 1934, where he studied both art and architecture. He played a role in the Japanese modern design developed after the Second World War to the high-growth period in the Japanese economy. Yanagi was both a representative of the wholly Japanese modern designer and a full-blown Modernist, who merged simplicity and practicality with elements of traditional Japanese crafts. He designed the official torch for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Yanagi died in 2011 at the age of 96.
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