KOBO Seattle | since 1995
$ 101.00
For the kitchen.
Three Rabbit Tenugui
Usagi is rabbit in Japanese. This Japanese utility cloth (tenugui) is hand dyed using a traditional technique called "Chusen". The backside of the cloth is the same design as the front. 100% Cotton. Size Approx: 39" x 14". Japan.
The ends of tenugui are intentionally left unhemmed for quick drying. It will fray after a couple of washings, but as you use the cloth the edges will stop fraying due to the tightening of the fabric. Do not bleach.
Soy Sauce Pourer
Porcelain. Soy sauce pourer (shoyusashi). 6.5 oz. Japan.
About the designer: Masahiro Mori (1927 - 2005)
Born in Saga, Kyushu (in southern Japan), Mori-san graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1952 and worked at a ceramics factory in Nagasaki before joining Hakusan Porcelain in Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture, as a ceramic designer in 1956. Here he applied his philosophy of “The pleasure in design comes from always thinking about and creating utsuwa (tableware) for daily life, which we can share with as many people as possible.”
He received the first-ever Good Design Award awarded by the Japan Design Committee in 1960 for his soy sauce bottle. Since then he has received numerous design awards both domestic and international and was exhibited around the world including the Deutsches Porzellan Museum in Germany and the National Museum of Art in Tokyo.
Red Felt Trivet - Flower Power
Inspired by his larger gallery works, artist Mark Calderon hand dyes extra thick industrial felt, and hand cuts his designs out of it.
Calderon is a Seattle sculptor who explores ideas in a variety of materials. These trivets are his first designs for the home. His sculptural work is in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum and the Portland Art Museum, as well as other private and public collections. 8'' x 8'' x 0.5''. Hand made in Seattle.