Japan! Japanese design and decorative arts from the 1950s to 2000s.
Silvana Editoriale| N° d'inventaire | 22947 |
| Format | 22.5 x 22 |
| Détails | 143 p., bound. |
| Publication | Milan, 2016 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788836633333 |
Its purpose is to show how, over the last sixty years, this design has been able to mix the principles of Japanese craftsmanship with new forms and materials created in the West and find original solutions to adapt this culture with its own traditions. Japanese design has maintained, through these contacts and innovations, the desire to remain in harmony with living spaces, to be in a fair relationship with reality. More than ninety works: furniture and objects in ceramics, goldsmithery, glassware and bamboo, from public and private collections tell of an aesthetic which, claiming continuity with the past, puts beauty in the spotlight. Beauty perceptible in a creation where an intimate relationship between man and his environment develops. In the 1920s, the Mingei movement initiated by the Japanese thinker Soetsu Yanagi, was created to value and make known the beauty of ordinary, everyday objects. This movement would have a major influence on post-war Asian design until the 2000s. Through nearly eighty major works: objects and furniture, from national and private collections, this exhibition aims to illustrate the fundamental notions of Japanese design and decorative arts, which are characterized by the simplicity and functionality of their forms, combining high technology and traditional materials.
Its purpose is to show how, over the last sixty years, this design has been able to mix the principles of Japanese craftsmanship with new forms and materials created in the West and find original solutions to adapt this culture with its own traditions. Japanese design has maintained, through these contacts and innovations, the desire to remain in harmony with living spaces, to be in a fair relationship with reality. More than ninety works: furniture and objects in ceramics, goldsmithery, glassware and bamboo, from public and private collections tell of an aesthetic which, claiming continuity with the past, puts beauty in the spotlight. Beauty perceptible in a creation where an intimate relationship between man and his environment develops. In the 1920s, the Mingei movement initiated by the Japanese thinker Soetsu Yanagi, was created to value and make known the beauty of ordinary, everyday objects. This movement would have a major influence on post-war Asian design until the 2000s. Through nearly eighty major works: objects and furniture, from national and private collections, this exhibition aims to illustrate the fundamental notions of Japanese design and decorative arts, which are characterized by the simplicity and functionality of their forms, combining high technology and traditional materials.