The Chawan: Object, Gesture, Relationship At the heart of the project is the chawan, the tea bowl central to Japanese tea culture. More than a functional object, it embodies a gesture: an invitation to engage with its form and surface in a deliberate, attentive and honorific way. The chawan is an expression of hospitality, an offering […]
Translucent pale yellowish green; trail in opaque white. Outsplayed rim, folded down, round, and in, with flattened top surface and inner lip around mouth; wide cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooled indent around base; piriform body; slightly concave bottom with pontil scar. Trail applied to center of bottom and wound up in a spiral, extending to […]
Walnut and mahogany wood with two yellow plastic laminate shelves; lacquered aluminium with brass details lamp, w 210 d 135 h 100 cm.