Japan Furniture Exhibition '61

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Catalog accompanying an exhibition held in the United States in 1961, sponsored and published by the Japan Export Furniture Manufacturer Association (JEFMA), a trade organization of 48 leading furniture makers in Japan, in collaboration with their government-run National Industrial Arts Institute, with the dual purpose of stimulating the production of Japanese Good Design in furniture, and introducing the results to the U.S. market. According to the introduction to this, the second iteration of this exhibition, it is full three years since the First Exhibition was held in the United States in 1958these recent years, we Japanese furniture manufacturers have increasingly equipped with facilities for mass production, so that we are now in a position to offer the products of better quality at lower prices. At the same time we have been making efforts to create furniture of graceful design with Oriental taste, using Japanese traditional craftsmanship. We have mainly selected the furnitures which are ready for mass production, and added some pieces of Japanese taste.

The 24 page catalog presents chairs, tables, and case pieces by prominent Japanese architects and designers including Katsuo Matsamura, Taichiro Nakai, Kozo Asari, Hideo Saito, Takeshi Mineo, Yujiro Yamaguchi, Ryuchi Ise, Fukuji Suzuki, Masaharu Ito, Keisuke Nakamura, Yo Yamagishi, Shigeru Imai, Shiro Kodo, Tadao Kawanami, Akira Sogi, Tomoichi Yoshida, Sori Yanagi, Taichiro Nakai, Toshio Miyake, Motoi Kojima, Fukui Suzuki, Akira Takayabu, Selichi Watanabe, and T. Nii, along with works from the Industrial Arts Institute and an armchair by American ex-pat Noemi Raymond, wife of architect Antonin Raymond. Manufacturers include. Manufacturers represented in the exhibition include Akita Mokko Co, Bokai Industry Co, Fuji Furniture Co, Haneda, Kosajujo Co, Inada Co, Iwai Kogyo Co, Imada Mokko Co, Kobe Wood Chemics Assoc., Kosuga Co, Kotobuki Seating Co, Kobyashi Fukuzo Co, K.K. Shimada Seisakusho, Kubo Shoten Co, Kassai Manufacturing Co, Miyoshi Mokko Co, Okamura Mfg. Co, Sakigake Furniture, Santa Kogyosho Corp, Tendo Mokko, Tsuji Mokko Co, Tottori Kagu Kogyo Co, Taihei Mokko Co, Toki Mokko Co, Toyohashi Mokko Co, Yamaguchi Co, and Yasui Kogyo Co. 8vo (8.5 x 11), 24 pages plus introduction and index, staple-bound, printed wrappers, photographs throughout. Curatorial information includes designer and manufacturer names, materials, and measurements. A scarce reference source for identifying and documenting some best-practice and equally scarceJapanese midcentury designs.Creator: Sori Yanagi (Designer)Dimensions: Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 8.5 in (21.59 cm)Depth: 0.25 in (6.35 mm)Style: Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)Materials and Techniques: PaperPlace of Origin: JapanPeriod: 1960-1969Date of Manufacture: 1961Condition: GoodWear consistent with age and use. Bumping to extremities, with creasing to bottom corner of front wrapper. Some rubbing and soiling to wrappers, with small damp stains to top edge of front wrapper. Interior clean and bright750.Seller Location: New York, NYReference Number: 1stDibs: LU828543363112Shop All Sori Yanagi

Sori Yanagi

Sri Yanagi was a Japanese product designer. Born in 1915 in Tokyo, Japan. His father was Yanagi Setsu, founder of the Japanese folk crafts mingei movement, which celebrated the beauty of everyday objects, and the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum (Nihon Mingeikan). Yanagi entered Tokyo Art School in 1934, where he studied both art and architecture. He played a role in the Japanese modern design developed after the Second World War to the high-growth period in the Japanese economy. Yanagi was both a representative of the wholly Japanese modern designer and a full-blown Modernist, who merged simplicity and practicality with elements of traditional Japanese crafts. He designed the official torch for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Yanagi died in 2011 at the age of 96.