Modern Design 
20 March 2005
Modern Design 
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Sori Yanagi

Butterfly stool

Tendo
Japan, 1956
rosewood plywood, brass 15 h × 17 w × 12 d in (38 × 43 × 30 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $3,500
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Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool combines the disparate traditions of Eastern philosophy and aesthetics with Western modernism. Rather than drawing on Japanese furniture traditions, the stool's form suggests a reductive interpretation of a Japanese kimono. Literature:0 Design Since 1945, Philadelphia Museum of Art, pg. 137

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