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Isamu Kenmochi (Japanese: 剣持勇, 1912 - 1971) was a Japanese modernist designer significant in the development of Japanese industrial design after World War II. [ 1 ] Isamu Kenmochi was born on 2 January 1912 in Tokyo. [ 2 ]
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Tendo Mokko chairs and tables are held in the collections of museums and have been sold for high prices at furniture auctions. [ 1 ] The company has collaborated with designers and architects such as Isamu Kenmochi , Sori Yanagi , Riki Watanabe [ jp ] , Daisaku Chō [ jp ] , Katsuhei Toyoguchi, Kenzo Tange , Bruno Mathsson , Katsuo Matsumura ...
George Katsutoshi Nakashima (Japanese: 中島勝寿 Nakashima Katsutoshi, May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement [citation needed].
Ryobiraki tansu being carried by hired porters. Woodblock print, Utagawa Toyokuni, 1807. Tansu were rarely used as stationary furniture. Consistent with traditional Japanese interior design, which featured a number of movable partitions, allowing for the creation of larger and smaller rooms within the home, tansu would need to be easily portable, and were not visible in the home except at ...
Tawaraya Sōtatsu (俵屋 宗達, c. 1570 – c. 1640) was a Japanese furniture designer and painter of the Rinpa school.. Sōtatsu is best known for his decorations of calligraphic works by his partner Hon'ami Kōetsu (1558–1637), [1] and his spectacular and highly influential byōbu folding screens, such as National Treasures Wind God and Thunder God [2] and his painting of the Sekiya and ...
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