Key facts

Product:
Butterfly stool
Manufacturer:
Wright
Architonic ID:
4106435
Country:
United States
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

Rosewood plywood, brass
17"w x 12"d x 15"h
Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool combines the disparate traditions of Eastern philosophy and aesthetics with Western modernism. Rather than drawing on Japanese furniture traditions, the stool's form suggests a reductive interpretation of a Japanese kimono.
Literature:
Design Since 1945, Philadelphia Museum of Art, pg. 137