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Place of Origin: East Asian
Antique German Toy Glass Marble Set 1910-1920s, in Original Leather Pouch
By Lauschaer
Located in Andernach, DE
Early 20th century glass marble set from Lauscha in their original hand crafted genuine leather pouch.
A true German classic, exported worldwide, also to the US.
The invention of the...
Category
1910s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Glass
1950s Olympic Tape Measure Peoples Republic of China
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Vintage Tricle Bakelite Olympic Tape Measure
made Peoples Republic of China
Cover made from dappled rich dark tricle bake-lite
includes gilt brass fittings and cloth tape.
5.25 dia...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Mid Century Japanese Fuji Meibo Naval Binocular Nardo Grey
Brass -Original box
By Fuji Meibo
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Japanese Fuji Meibo Observation Binoculars 15 x 80 - 4 degree field of view.
A large pair of Japanese naval observation binoculars mounted on an a...
Category
1950s Industrial Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné Collection volumes 1-6
Located in New York, NY
The Catalogue Raisonné of Warhol’s paintings, sculptures, and drawings was initiated by Thomas Amman in 1977, when Warhol was at the height of his career.
In 1993, six years after W...
Category
2010s East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1970s Industrial Polished Aluminium Brass
Glass Edison Flameproof Strip Light
By Daeyang
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Reclaimed vintage industrial Korean flameproof striplight made by Daeyang in the 1970's with highly polished finish.
Original item salvaged fro...
Category
1970s Industrial Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
1970 Seiko Blue and Tobacco Retro Vintage Industrial Antique Steel Quartz Clock
By Seiko
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Seiko super tanker slave clock original aqua marine green finish
A reclaimed and restored maritime slave clock.
These clocks were used in great numbers on super tankers, cargo ...
Category
1970s Industrial Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel, Cut Steel
Two Chinese Antique Cinnabar Brooches Ric#JD012-1&2
Located in Norton, MA
Two Chinese Antique Cinnabar Brooches Ric#JD012-1&2
depicting floral patterns on both.
Dimensions:
Large: 2" x 1 3/4" x 1/4"
Small: 1 1/4" x 1" x 1/4"
Category
Early 20th Century Other East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver
Batman
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1966
Located in Devon, GB
Fabulously kitsch and colourful, this rare Japanese B2 poster advertised the first full length feature film of the DC Comics character Batman. Released by 20th century Fox in 1966 as...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Linen, Paper
1970s Industrial Cast Aluminium and Brass Flame Proof Edison Striplight, Orange
By Daeyang, Industrial Design
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Korean flame proof Edison LED twin strip light made by Daeyang in the 1970s with bespoke signal orange finish.
Original item salvaged from supertankers ...
Category
Late 20th Century Industrial East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
WA: The Essence of Japanese Design Book
Located in New York, NY
"Explores the beauty, essence, and enduring impact of Japanese design printed on craft paper and bound in the traditional Japanese style with a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$80 / item
Chinese Green Glass Snuff Bottle, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
A mixture of finely powdered tobacco, herbs, and spices, snuff was introduced to China in the 17th century by Western diplomats. Initially reserved for ranking members of Qing-dynast...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
1970s Seiko Retro Vintage Industrial Antique Steel Quartz Wall Clock, Pink
By Seiko
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Seiko super tanker slave clock original re-finished in Millenial Pink.
A reclaimed and restored maritime slave clock.
These clocks were used in great numbers on super tankers, ...
Category
1970s Industrial Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel, Cut Steel
1980s Citizen Japanese Blue Steel Retro Vintage Industrial Antique Quartz Clock
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Citizen super tanker slave clock original blue finish.
A reclaimed and restored maritime slave clock also called secondary clock of superior build quality.
These clocks were us...
Category
1980s Industrial Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel, Cut Steel, Chrome
$263 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Japanese Kiseru Tobacco Pipe
Case, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant pipe of white brass and bamboo dates to early 20th century Japan and was used for smoking finely shredded tobacco (kizami-tabako). Known as a rao-kiseru, these short smo...
Category
Early 20th Century Meiji East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1969 classic western staring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katherine Ross. This film was directed by George Roy Hill. This size poster would have...
Category
1960s Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Decorative Conch Shell, Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative shell realized in China in the late 20th Century.
The surface is covered with bright enamel-like colors (red, orange, yellow, green) and gilded (gold-colored) raised line...
Category
Late 20th Century East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Japanese Wooden Music Box 1964s Für Elise
Located in Paris, FR
This is a music box which was made in Japan in 1964s (Showa 39).
The music is Für Elise. If you turn the part of water wheel, it will start the music.
It is all hand crafted and on t...
Category
1960s Showa Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Banksy Graffitied Walls and Wasn’t Sorry Book
By Phaidon
Located in New York, NY
A clever, quirky biography of a leading contemporary artist, for children
Banksy is a world-famous graffiti artist who secretly spray paints pictures on streets and walls while no o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire
Located in New York, NY
The essential exploration of the design, history, and culture of the motorcycle – an icon of the machine age
Motorcycles are ubiquitous in the world’s streets and cities, evolving...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$60 / item
Rare and Collectible 1960
s Horikawa Space Station Toy
Located in Redding, CT
Rare and Collectible 1960's Horikawa Space Station Toy. Perfect for that space age toy collector. Tin Lithograph sphere that says Nasa Space Station on t...
Category
1960s Space Age Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Samuraï Maeda Armor
Located in Paris, FR
Armor Samuraï Maeda, ceremonial armor
with handcrafted helmet and protects.
Made with original japanese fabrics only use for
samuraï armor confection, ...
Category
1930s Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Glass
$28,229
Chinese Bamboo Opium Pipe with Red Clay Bowl
Located in Chicago, IL
This long bamboo pipe dates to the late 19th century and was originally used for smoking opium. Unlike a tobacco pipe, the opium pipe was designed especially to allow resinous opium ...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1970 Seiko Blue and Tobacco Retro Vintage Industrial Antique Steel Quartz Clock
By Seiko
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Seiko super tanker slave clock original aqua blue finish
A reclaimed and restored maritime slave clock.
These clocks were used in great numbers on super tankers, cargo ships an...
Category
1970s Industrial Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel, Cut Steel
Chinese Export Sterling Silver Walking Stick Handle, circa 1900
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Chinese Export sterling silver walking stick handle, circa 1900. Monogram of the famous ichthyologist Dr. Hugh McCormick Smith, "H...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
$144 Sale Price
36% Off
Rihanna Book: Limited Edition
Fenty x Phaidon
Featuring a Designer Stand
Located in New York, NY
Clear the coffee table! Rihanna invites you into her world with this stunning visual autobiography that comes with a limited edition stand created in collaboration with the artists T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Late Art Deco Paction Enamel Lighter with Enamel and Chrome Thunderbolt Design
Located in Red Lion, PA
Late Art Deco “Paction” Enamel and Chrome Lighter with Thunderbolt Motif PAC Japan, c. 1940s
A compact and dynamic Late Art Deco lighter by Paction,...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Chrome
Set of 8 Mini Pigs Earthenware Pottery Tea Pets Paperweights
Located in Somis, CA
Set of 8 adorable earthenware piggies. Hand crafted depicting happy countenance. Various colors. These cute pieces can be used as paperweights and tea pets.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
$45 Sale Price / set
47% Off
Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
The definitive monograph on one of the most revered artists of our time
Ellsworth Kelly will forever be remembered as one of the most distinctive and influential artists of our ti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$60 / item
Chinese Spittoon Dross Box with Buddhist Symbols, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
By the 18th century, opium use had become as central to Chinese social life as taking tea or smoking tobacco, fostering a subculture rich with its own customs, traditions, and exquis...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Copper
Petite Chinese Opium Tool Charm, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A small Chinese chatelaine tool set strung with a single brass spoon. Suspended from one's clothing at the shoulder, back, or waist, a tool set such as this was used for a variety of...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Set of 8 Antique Christmas Putz Houses, , Christmas Decorations
By Leo Putz
Located in Buffalo, NY
8 Antique Christmas Putz Houses
Here we have from the local estate of the original owner a VERY Rare group of 8 Large Putz Houses in their original b...
Category
1950s Folk Art Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Collection of “Global Interior” Design Publications- set of 7
Located in Cordova, SC
Nearly a complete set of the Global Interior publication that was produced for the Japanese market. Missing three of the ten volumes, numbers 2, 4, and 10. The photos are what speak ...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Nasa Space Shuttle Lighter, 1980s Japan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Blast off with this Nasa Space Shuttle lighter. Made in Japan, circa 1980s for Comoy's of London. Modeled after the Columbia shuttle. Great detail with badging throughout. Working li...
Category
1980s Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Vintage Toot-a-loop Radio by Panasonic, Japan, 1970s
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Vintage Toot-a-Loop radio (model nr: Panasonic R-72): an emblematic radio, designed and fabricated by Panasonic Japan in the early 1970s. The radio was designed to be wrapped and car...
Category
1970s Other Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Water Pipe
Located in Pomona, CA
This antique Chinese water pipe, from the late 19th century and originating from Canton, China. This water pipe designed for smoking tobacco, often mistaken for an opium pipe due to ...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Export Antique East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
$416 Sale Price
30% Off
Rare Tibetan or Mongolian Gau Box Front with Garuda and Guardian Lion - Buddhist
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Rare Tibetan or Mongolian Gau Box Front with Garuda and Guardian Lion
Tibet or Mongolia, 19th Century
Dimensions: 7 × 9 × 2 cm
Weight: 36 grams
Material: Solid silver
Provenance: Tib...
Category
19th Century Antique East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Antique Japanese Damascene Cigarette Case with Ornate Mt. Fuji
Dragon Decor
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique cigarette case is unsigned by the maker, but presumed to have originated from Japan and date to approximately 1920 and done in the perio...
Category
Early 20th Century Japonisme East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
JAPAN 1890 Meiji Period Kanzashi Hair Stick In Gild Sterling With Red Coral
Located in Miami, FL
A hair Kanzashi stick from the Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912).
Beautiful decorative Kanzashi hair decoration from the Japanese Imperial Meiji period, circa 1890. This hair double...
Category
1890s Meiji Antique East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,575 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage Japanese Three Rat Netsuke
Located in Chicago, IL
The lack of pockets on traditional Japanese kimonos resulted in small pouches or boxes that were strung at the waist and secured by button-like fasteners known as netsuke. Although t...
Category
Early 20th Century East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
The Contemporary African Kitchen
Located in New York, NY
Experience Africa’s vibrant food culture with 120 recipes from the continent’s most exciting culinary voices
Meet the culinarians who are setting the new African table. James Beard Award-winning author Alexander Smalls presents a vibrant library of home cooking recipes and texts contributed by 33 chefs, restaurateurs, caterers, cooks, and writers at the heart of Africa’s food movement.
Organized geographically into five regions, The Contemporary African...
Category
2010s East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$50 / item
Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast at Tiffany
s
Original Movie Poster, Japanese, 1969
Located in Devon, GB
Candy colors combine to perfection with the adorable Audrey on this charming Japanese B2 poster for a 1969 re-release of the perennially popular 'Breakfast at Tiffany's.' Holly Golightly would be Audrey Hepburn’s defining role, establishing her status as one of the greatest screen legends and style icons of all time. It seems unbelievable now that Truman Capote, author of the novella on which the movie was based, had his heart set on Marilyn Monroe for the part. Monroe pulled out of the running when her acting coach advised her not to play 'a lady of the night...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Panasonic Toot-a-Loop-Radio, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Panasonic toot-a-loop-radio is an original decorative object realized in the 1970s by Panasonic R-72 (R72) and built by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co
This radio is the...
Category
1970s Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
19th Century Edo-Meiji Period Samurai Tantō Knife/Short Blade Sword and Scabbard
Located in North Miami, FL
19th century Edo-Meiji period samurai Tantō knife/short blade sword and scabbard
By: unknown
Material: iron, metal, paint, steel, leather, wood, lacquer, metal
Technique: forged, ha...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Copper, Steel, Iron
Crumbs Cookies and Sweets from Around the World
Located in New York, NY
'A rare and special book that you’ll find yourself reading and baking from for many years to come.' – Edd Kimber, baker and cookbook author
'The most well-researched and diverse cookie book I have ever encountered … An instant classic.' – Hetty Lui McKinnon, cookbook author and food writer
Bake your way around the world with the ultimate collection of 300 irresistible, authentic, and delicious cookie recipes from nearly 100 countries
Whether enjoyed at breakfast, with afternoon tea, on holidays, or as a late-night snack, cookies are a universally beloved treat. In Crumbs, food writer, recipe developer, and self-confessed baking obsessive Ben Mims takes home cooks on a delicious tour across countries and cultures, presenting a sweet and satisfying guide to crumbly, crunchy, chewy desserts – from Snickerdoodles, Date-Filled Maamoul, and Almond Macaroons to Cardamom Biscuits, Italian Waffle Cookies, and Okinawan Brown Sugar Shortbread.
Organized geographically, Crumbs is chock-full of old-world and modern classics, and intriguing local recipes from more than 100 countries. Each begins with a fascinating origin story, followed by clear, step-by-step instructions and notes on regional variations.
Beginners will appreciate Mims’s introduction to essential equipment, ingredients, and techniques such as shaping, rolling, and slicing, while bakers of all skill levels will find inspiration in the bounty of recipes, each carefully tested and perfected for home kitchens. Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, the book features gorgeous photographs and special icons designating dairy-free, gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan recipes, as well as approachable, easy-to-make options that come together in 30 minutes or less.
Recipes include: Chocolate-Glazed Elisenlebkuchen, Danish Pepper and Spice Cookies, Egyptian Stuffed Eid Cookies, Filipino Powdered Milk Shortbreads, French Macarons, Icelandic Gingerbread, Malaysian Milky Cashew Cookies, Nigerian Coconut Macaroon Balls, Pakistani Cumin Seed Cookies, Portuguese Biscoitos, Puerto Rican Guava and Almond Thumbprint Cookies, Rugelach, Spanish Almendrados, Shrewsbury Biscuits, Speculaas, Sri Lankan Crunchy Sugar Cookies, Syrian Sesame and Pistachio Cookies, Thai Rolled Wafer Cookies, Venezuelan Shortbread Cookies, and Welsh Griddled Currant Cookies, plus international variations on wedding cookies, Christmas cookies...
Category
2010s East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Beatles
A Hard Day
s Night
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1964
Located in Devon, GB
A rare and sought after Japanese B2 poster for The Beatles' first full-length feature film 'A Hard Day's Night,' which followed the fab four over an anarchic 36 hours in London at th...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Chinese Shan Shui Relief Snuff Bottle, c. 1940s
Located in Chicago, IL
A mixture of finely powdered tobacco, herbs, and spices, snuff was introduced to China in the 17th century by Western diplomats. Initially reserved for ranking members of Qing-dynast...
Category
Mid-20th Century Qing East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Resin
Vintage Traditional Japanese Kokeshi Wood Doll
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Kokeshi or Kokashi doll handmade by Japanese artisans from wood.
The dolls have a simple trunk as a body and an enlarged head.
One characteristic of Kokeshi dolls is their lack of arms and legs.
signed underneath as follow.
Kokashi Doll Kegon Waterfall Japan 1987.
Kokeshi (???, ???), are simple wooden Japanese dolls with no arms or legs that have been crafted for more than 150 years as a toy for...
Category
Late 20th Century Japonisme East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Gold-Plated Ronson Banjo Stylish Design Petrol Lighter, Japan
By Ronson
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This rare reproduction of the original 1926 Ronson Banjo features a gold-plated finish was produced by Ronson Japan in 1990.
The lighter comes fully functional with fresh flit and fluid ready for use.
Stamped on the lighter:
Ronson Lighter
US PATENT Dec,31,1918
RONSON WORLD'S FIRST AUTOMATIC...
Category
1990s Art Deco East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
$310 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Chinese Peking Red Overlay Snowflake Glass Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Peking Red Overlay Snowflake Glass Snuff Bottle, of flattened ovoid shape with sloping shoulders, round neck, thin and flat mouth rim, raised oval foot and countersun...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Antique East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
Antique Chinese Blue
White Porcelain Dragon Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese porcelain dragon snuff bottle, cylindrical pillar form with high shoulder, short neck, everted lip and concentric grooved base painted in underglaze cobalt blue of a single f...
Category
19th Century Qing Antique East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
ANTIQUE TRADITIONAL CHINESE MAHJONG GAME SET WITH 144 TiLES
Located in Pulborough, GB
Antiques of London
An exquisite vintage Mah Jong set, complete with hand-carved bone and bamboo tiles, original scoring sticks, dice, and a beautifully aged wooden storage chest ...
Category
20th Century East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Hardwood
Antique Asian Bronze buddhist bell Tibetan Meditation Prayer Ghanta Bell
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Antique Asian Bronze buddhist bell Tibetan Meditation Prayer Ghanta Bell.
Buddhist Tibetan Meditation Prayer Bell.
A Bronze ritual bell "DRILBU" in Tibetan or commonly known as "Ghan...
Category
Early 1900s Tibetan Antique East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Jutaku: Japanese Houses Book
Located in New York, NY
"Another winner from Phaidon... a must for those interested in architecture and design" —selectism. com.
Frenetic. Pulsating. Disorienting. Japan’s contemporary culture is constantly in flux, with a host of new architectural practices ushering in an era of continuous experimentation.
Featuring more than 400 houses, one per page, one image per house, Jutaku: Japanese Houses is a fast-paced, shock to the system that shines a Harajuku–bright neon light on the sheer volume, variety and novelty of contemporary Japanese residential architecture.
Featuring the work of many of Japan’s most famous architects including Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$25 / item
Japanese Wood Soroban Abacus, 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A hand-made wooden Soroban or Abacus, Japan, circa 1945-1952.
A student abacus, made of wood, with wooden beads on metal spokes.
Hand painted Japanese numbers.
An abacus is a calc...
Category
1940s Japonisme Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Shiro Kuramata Hammer House
By Shiro Kuramata
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Hammer house object by Shiro Kuramata.
Never used condition in box.
Category
1980s Post-Modern Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Zinc
Vintage Litho Wind-up Tin Toy Duck 1940
s to 1950
s, West Germany, US Zone
By Deutsches Reichs Gebrauchs Muster (D.R.G.M.) 1
Located in Andernach, DE
West-German tin mechanical tin toy from the 1940s to 1950's in the shape of a duck, which features waddling legs, once the
'beast' ist put in motion via it's legs.... but be aware: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sheet Metal
Japan Furniture Exhibition
61
By Sori Yanagi
Located in New York, NY
Catalog accompanying an exhibition held in the United States in 1961, sponsored and published by the Japan Export Furniture Manufacturer Association (JEFMA), a trade organization of 48 leading furniture makers in Japan, in collaboration with their government-run National Industrial Arts Institute, with the dual purpose of stimulating the production of Japanese “Good Design” in furniture, and introducing the results to the U.S. market. According to the introduction to this, the second iteration of this exhibition, “it is full three years since the First Exhibition was held in the United States in 1958…these recent years, we Japanese furniture manufacturers have increasingly equipped with facilities for mass production, so that we are now in a position to offer the products of better quality at lower prices. At the same time we have been making efforts to create furniture of graceful design with Oriental taste, using Japanese traditional craftsmanship. We have mainly selected the furnitures which are ready for mass production, and added some pieces of Japanese taste.”
The 24 page catalog presents chairs, tables, and case pieces by prominent Japanese architects and designers including Katsuo Matsamura, Taichiro Nakai, Kozo Asari, Hideo Saito, Takeshi Mineo, Yujiro Yamaguchi, Ryuchi Ise, Fukuji Suzuki, Masaharu Ito, Keisuke Nakamura, Yo Yamagishi, Shigeru Imai, Shiro Kodo, Tadao Kawanami, Akira Sogi, Tomoichi Yoshida, Sori Yanagi, Taichiro Nakai, Toshio Miyake, Motoi Kojima, Fukui Suzuki, Akira Takayabu, Selichi Watanabe, and T. Nii, along with works from the Industrial Arts Institute and an armchair by American ex-pat Noemi Raymond, wife of architect Antonin Raymond. Manufacturers include. Manufacturers represented in the exhibition include Akita Mokko Co, Bokai Industry Co, Fuji Furniture Co, Haneda, Kosajujo Co, Inada & Co, Iwai Kogyo Co, Imada Mokko Co, Kobe Wood Chemics Assoc., Kosuga & Co, Kotobuki Seating Co, Kobyashi Fukuzo & Co, K.K. Shimada Seisakusho, Kubo Shoten Co, Kassai Manufacturing Co, Miyoshi Mokko Co, Okamura Mfg. Co, Sakigake Furniture, Santa Kogyosho Corp, Tendo Mokko, Tsuji Mokko Co, Tottori Kagu Kogyo Co, Taihei Mokko Co, Toki Mokko Co, Toyohashi Mokko Co, Yamaguchi Co...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Joel Meyerowitz, Taking My Time
Located in New York, NY
With over 650 pages and featuring over 550 images, Taking My Time provides an unprecedented overview and insight into the mind and work of the iconic American photographer Joel Meyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$750 / item
Japanese Geisha Princess Doll in Original Glass
Wood Case
Located in Plainview, NY
Japanese Geisha Princess Doll in Original Glass & Wood Case :
This exquisite antique Japanese Geisha doll is a beautifully preserved example of traditional craftsmanship, elegantly presented in its original glass display case. The doll is depicted in a graceful reclining pose on a woven tatami mat, dressed in an opulent ivory kimono...
Category
20th Century Japonisme East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain, Fabric, Glass, Wood
Set of 4 Mint 1950s “Golden Egg” Mini Japanese Lighters by Northern Electric
Located in Vienna, AT
Set of 4 Mint 1950s “Golden Egg” Mini Japanese Lighters – Northern Electric – Original Packaging, Working Condition
Rare set of four vintage 1950s “G...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern East Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
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Dickens Fan on Your List? This First Edition of ‘A Christmas Carol’ Is a Treasure
Produced in 1843, the well-preserved volume is evidence of the author's exacting specifications.
Medal-Worthy Memorabilia from Epic Past Olympic Games
Get into the games! These items celebrate the events, athletes, host countries and sporting spirit.
Ahoy! You’ve Never Seen a Collection of Sailor Art and Kitsch Quite Like This
French trendsetter and serial collector Daniel Rozensztroch tells us about his obsession with objects related to seafaring men.
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The sought-after designer worked with the team at Hoffman Creative to produce a monograph that beautifully showcases some of Studio Shamshiri's most inspiring projects.
Moroccan Artworks and Objects Take Center Stage in an Extraordinary Villa in Tangier
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