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Our daily life has been based on the art of hand craft. The art has made our life richer and created future. However, today, things can be made rather easily — without our hands. Living a convenient and easy life — even easier than we imagined it would be — we are starting to wonder if we can still be satisfied with the richness we can find in our life.

Applied Art is aiming to redefine the possibility of our hand craft, the artistic value it can attain, the contribution it can make to the society, in order to retrieve richness in our daily life.

Soramori

Soramori

Makiko Toda

Natsume (matcha container) with lacquer art. Echizen lacquerware.

Soramori works as a small god, connecting the small universe inside you and the infinitely expanding one beyond. Carved entirely by hand in zelkova, then finished with paints made from natural materials so the grain of the wood remains visible.

H 11cm × W 10cm × D 9cm

128,571 JPY
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Cat bowl

Cat bowl

Shoko Okada

A two-way Echizen lacquer bowl for cats and people.

A high, heavy base makes it easy for cats to eat; the bowl lifts away and can be used as human tableware. Made so the vessels shared by a household can belong to the same family of forms.

Bowl: 12cmφ × H 6.5cm / Base: 8.5cmφ × H 7.5cm

17,143 JPY
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Wine Glass

Wine Glass

Shinobu

Wine glasses covered with lacquer painting. Echizen lacquerware.

Pairs of glasses on the theme of time of day — morning forest, sea at noon, and city at night — painted so art can be picked up and used on celebratory occasions or small everyday treats.

7.5cmφ × H 21cm

68,571 JPY
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Lacquer hand mirror

Lacquer hand mirror

TONOTaiyo

Hand mirror with lacquer art. Echizen lacquerware.

A hand-mirror first received from a craftsperson, later drawn, then made again as a product with a design of margaret flowers.

7.5cmφ × H 0.8cm

15,714 JPY
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Deer antler chopstick rest “Kochikaze”

Deer antler chopstick rest “Kochikaze”

deer bone “hai”

Chopstick rest carved from deer antler and wrapped in lacquer.

Antlers grow back each spring. This rest, named Kochikaze — the east wind at the beginning of spring — is carved from that cycle of rapid growth and tightened with a matte belt of lacquer.

55mm × 20mm

15,714 JPY
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Deer antler chopstick rest “Hitomoshigoro”

Deer antler chopstick rest “Hitomoshigoro”

deer bone “hai”

Chopstick rest of deer bone and small chrysanthemum, wrapped in lacquer.

Hitomoshi-goro is dusk, when people begin to light their lives. Deer bone and small chrysanthemum flowers are wrapped in a candy-colored lacquer, like the sky turning gold and quiet toward night.

Box: 42mm × 52mm × 35mm

11,143 JPY
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