Stand Ashtray by Kenzo Tange for Tendo Mokko, Japan, 1957

Isamu Kenmochi (1912-1971) was a Japanese modernist designer significant in the development of Japanese design after WW2. Rare coffee table Chromed metal...

Ingo Maurer Uchiwa Wall Lamp model III Materials: Rice paper, almost round lampshade. Bamboo rod. Black painted iron rods. Bakelite E27 socket. Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 60 watt m...

These low table is a very special Matthias Biberon work, in Japanese Cedar and Oak. All joints are visible is the artist's signature in the pure Japanese influence of Mingei thought and Wabi Sabi. This is the beauty of the everyday object, one whose details we never tire of rediscovering. Matthias Biberon (Paris, 1977) lives and works in Perche (Normandy / France). He began working with wood in 2019, leaving behind photography and ceramics, which he had practiced successfully for many years. In wood, he finds the pleasure of imagining shapes and building them, with a combination of both naivety and attention to detail, and a freedom that neither conceptualism nor ceramics had given him. His furniture is organic, respecting the original shape of the wood and following its knots and veins. The search for balance and precision is one of the cornerstones of Matthias's work. Carefully sourced, the wood types used - Oak, Elm, Cedar, Walnut - have been dried for decades, giving them an unrivalled patina. His trademark? Visible construction and the blending of materials, with stone a natural addition to his creations; for each of them, he seeks a form of balance, purity and softness, a functionality that is both poetic and sculptural, the simplicity and force of a haiku. Passionate about art, it was while progressing towards Arts & Crafts that he embraced the aesthetics of functionalism, Mingeï and the thinking of William Morris. He is sensitive to the Arte Povera of Jannis Kounellis and Giovanni Anselmo, the Zen influence of John Cage, the freedom of Don Cherry...

Marcel Gascoin (1907-1986) Sicam edition Model created around 1950 for the Jean-Zay university campus, Antony, France - Provenance Cité Universitaire Jean-Zay, Antony, France - acqu...