Two Early "Butterfly" Stools
Auction Closed
June 5, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sori Yanagi
Two Early "Butterfly" Stools
circa 1950s
produced by Tendo Mokko, Tendō, Yamagata, Japan
Brazilian rosewood, brass
15 ⅜ x 16 ⅝ x 12 ⅛ in. (39.1 x 42.2 x 30.🀅8 cm) each
Gifted to the present owner by the artist
Kathryn Hiesinger & George Marcus, Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Design: An Illustrated Handbook, New York, 1993, p. 202
Alexander von Vegesack, Peter Dunas, and Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, eds., 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, pp. 160-161
Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Mobilier Français 1930-1960, Paris, 1997, p. 126
Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael & Gabrielle Boyd, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of 🌸Modern Art, San Francisco, 19🅠98, p. 125, plate 80
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