Sori Yanagi - Design London Tuesday, September 23, 2014 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 'Design', 12 June 2008, lot 7

  • Literature

    Kathryn Hiesinger and George Marcus, Design since 1945, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983, pl. 16, pp. 52, 137
    Kathryn B. Hiesinger and Felice Fischer, Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950, Philadelphia and New York, 1995, p. 64, fig. 27
    Akari Matsuura, Japan Design to the new generation, Japan, 2001, p. 70

223

Early 'Butterfly' stool

designed 1954
Indian rosewood-veneered plywood, brass.
38.6 x 42.6 x 31 cm (15 1/4 x 16 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.)
Manufactured by Tendo Mokko, Japan.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for £3,750

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Ben Williams
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London 24 September 2014 2pm