Their decision to use a traditional technique echoes a recurring theme at Milan design week, which features several exhibitions dedicated to craft revival — including a showcase of updated
Japanese lacquerware.
He decided to collect
Japanese lacquerware from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Objects of Elegance and Whimsy:
Japanese Lacquerware and Shibayama from the John R. Young Collection
Not exact matches
The collection spans five millenniums, from the art of early
Japanese cultures around 3000 B.C. through that of the Edo period of the 17th to 19th centuries A.D. -LSB-...] Assembled over half a century and exhibited throughout the world, Mrs. Burke's collection comprises about a thousand artifacts, including paintings, prints, sculpture, textiles,
lacquerware, ceramics and calligraphy, collectively worth tens of millions of dollars.
Sebastian Izzard Asian Art (New York) and London Gallery (Tokyo), specialists in
Japanese and Buddhist art respectively, will combine their collections for a presentation spanning a thousand years of
Japanese history in a variety of mediums, including medieval ceramics and Negoro
lacquerware.
The AGSA's collection of Asian Art includes rare examples of
Japanese art (ceramics, screens, sculpture, prints), Chinese art (pottery,
lacquerware, sculpture), Indian art (miniature painting, illuminated manuscripts, carvings, textiles), as well as works from Southeast Asia (notably wood carving from South Sumatra) and the Middle East.