Japanese Woven Bamboo Box

€520
.

All the timelessness of Japanese craftsmanship in this beautiful square woven bamboo box. It was made by Kyoto-based Masaichi Ishida, who at over 85 years of age and 69 years of career is recognised as an outstanding master craftsman of the fascinating and time-consuming work of bamboo basketry. This piece was designed in collaboration with Shigeo Mashiro, founder of the Sfera brand, who brought his contemporary vision to this timeless work.

PLACE OF MANUFACTURE JAPAN
DIMENSIONS

Length 24cm; width 24cm; Height 7cm

WEIGHT 120gr
MATERIALS Bamboo

To create this piece, Ishida san first selected the best bamboo, a plant found everywhere in Japan with many endemic varieties, but of which only the most beautiful will give the most beautiful basketry, so this first selection was key. The cut bamboos are then heated to remove the oil from their core and then put to dry. Then begins the slow and extremely tedious work of cutting the bamboo pieces vertically, entirely by hand with the help of various very simple tools, including knives, to obtain thinner and thinner strips, the challenge being of course to obtain strips of very specific and identical dimensions. A very physical job! He then made the patterns by weaving and bending the different strips using ancestral techniques. Several months of work were necessary.


A unique manual work for a unique piece, wonderfully decorative, traditional in its heritage but very contemporary in its style, and which fits perfectly in a modern urban universe. Inside the vase, a removable U-shaped piece of bamboo, covered with black urushi lacquer, can be filled with water to accommodate a floral or plant composition, from the simplest to the most sophisticated. A piece that will leave no one indifferent and which would have been at home in the beautiful "Fendre l'Air" exhibition (2019) at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, which celebrated the art of Japanese bamboo basketry.

CARE INSTRUCTIONS: Handle with care. Rub gently with a soft cloth. Do not place near a heat source.

This object keeps in memory the hand of the craftsman who designed it with patience. It will accompany your daily life while contributing to the preservation of unique craftsmanship.

The shipping costs will be calculated and added at the finalization of the basket. 

We usually ship orders within 48 business hours (except for fine art photographic prints, which require between 5 and 10 business days because they are prepared on demand), but it may happen that this delay is longer when new collections are put online or if we are traveling abroad.
In this case we will indicate the new delays in the announcement banner at the top of each page of the site, please refer to it before ordering (the usual delays would apply if the banner does not refer to it).

The shipping costs are calculated and added during the finalization of the basket.

Deliveries are made by Colissimo with tracking. Each package is, at the buyer's choice, delivered at home against a signature or delivered in a Point Relais La Poste. Packages are insured up to their value against loss or damage.

For the moment we deliver in France (metropolitan and overseas), the European Union countries and United States. Subscribe to our newsletter to be informed of the opening of new geographical areas.

Metropolitan France, Andorra, Monaco. From 5,47€

France Overseas zone 1 (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion, Guyana, Mayotte and St-Pierre-et-Miquelon). From 15,71€

France Overseas zone 2 (New Caledonia, French Polynesia...). From 23.05€

Zone 1 (Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands). From 10,55€

Zone 2 (Austria, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal). From 12,12€

Zone 3 (Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden). From 13,63€

Zone 4 (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Malta, Romania). From 16,00€

Zone 5 (United States). From 30,80€

Also to be discovered

Recently seen