A lightweight chair designed by Charlotte Perriand which, in terms of size and proportions, is inspired by Japanese traditions. A chair that, like a sheet of paper, takes its form from graceful folds, developed from a single die-pressed piece of curved ply in natural or stained black oak.
Udukuri is a traditional wood craft technique of polishing wood surface with a brush made of sew grass, to scrape off soft tissue so that coarse grain pattern is revealed. In Jo Nagasaka's (Schemata Architects) new line of furniture titled ‘ColoRing’ he feature this Udukuri technique.
New York City
As part of the year-long celebration of its 75th anniversary, The Cloisters museum and gardens—The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s branch museum dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—will present The Forty Part Motet (2001), a sound installation by Janet Cardiff. The Forty Part Motet is the first time a work of contemporary art has been shown at The Cloisters.
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