{"id":757,"date":"2012-01-08T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/?p=757"},"modified":"2020-08-23T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:52:39","slug":"dossier-sori-yanagi-1915-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Dossier : Sori Yanagi (1915-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sori-yanagi-cup-spoon.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-imagelightbox=\"0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-774\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sori-yanagi-cup-spoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sori-yanagi-cup-spoon.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sori-yanagi-cup-spoon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sori-yanagi-cup-spoon-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sori-yanagi-cup-spoon-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLa presse fran\u00e7aise n&rsquo;a pas mentionn\u00e9, me semble-t-il, la mort de Sori Yanagi (\u67f3\u5b97\u7406) le 25 d\u00e9cembre dernier. Je l&rsquo;apprends en \u00e9coutant l&rsquo;\u00e9mission d&rsquo;architecture de Fran\u00e7ois Chaslin sur France culture, ce dimanche 8 janvier 2012. Au milieu des ann\u00e9es 90, L. avait fait acheter pour le d\u00e9partement d&rsquo;arts plastiques de Paris 8, des tabourets Elephant (1954) \u2014 encore fabriqu\u00e9s en r\u00e9sine de polyester arm\u00e9e de fibre de verre. Je connaissais son nom et certains de ses objets (le tabouret Butterfly, une c\u00e9l\u00e8bre th\u00e9i\u00e8re, etc.) quand, en octobre 2000, ayant donn\u00e9 un entretien pour la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision NHK, j&rsquo;ai re\u00e7u en cadeau un \u00e9crin de 10 couverts Yanagi \u00ab de luxe \u00bb \u2014 avec manches en bois. Je remarquais alors des objets de lui un peu partout au Japon (une bouilloire, des ustensiles, des couverts, des tasses). J&rsquo;ai vu, en 2001, au grand magasin Parco d&rsquo;Osaka, une tasse de porcelaine <em>fine bone china<\/em> (1990) de taille moyenne, fabriqu\u00e9e par Nikko \u00e0 Kanazawa. C&rsquo;\u00e9tait La Tasse par excellence. J&rsquo;en ai achet\u00e9 une pour le 88e anniversaire de mon p\u00e8re. En 2002, j&rsquo;ai achet\u00e9 des couverts pour tous les jours. En novembre 2003, \u00e0 Tokyo, L. et moi avons achet\u00e9 d&rsquo;autres tasses blanches, et des petites aussi. En f\u00e9vrier 2011, visitant le Mingei Kan (mus\u00e9e d&rsquo;art populaire \u00e0 Tokyo) fond\u00e9 par le philosophe Soetsu Yanagi, le p\u00e8re de Sori Yanagi, j&rsquo;ai choisi de rapporter une assiette en c\u00e9ramique noire et verte qui est un classique des emprunts de Sori Yanagi aux arts traditionnels populaires.<\/p>\n<p>Voici donc le dossier de <em>jlggbblog<\/em> propose en hommage \u00e0 ce grand designer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yanagi-chaslin-2012.mov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-867\" title=\"franceculture\" src=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/franceculture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nExtrait de l&rsquo;\u00e9mission <em>M\u00e9tropolitains<\/em> de Fran\u00e7ois Chaslin consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 Sori Yanagi le 8 janvier 2012, cliquer ici&nbsp;: <a href=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yanagi-chaslin-2012.mov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yanagi-Chaslin-2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soriyanagi.com\/uk\/start.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-802\" title=\"yanagi-uk\" src=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yanagi-uk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"66\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soriyanagi.com\/uk\/start.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Sori Yanagi Design en Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog2\/?p=4193\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-791\" title=\"nakai-yanagi\" src=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nakai-yanagi-512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nakai-yanagi-512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nakai-yanagi-512-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nakai-yanagi-512-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog2\/?p=4193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab Une assiette \u00e0 deux couleurs d\u2019\u00e9maux juxtapos\u00e9es de Sori Yanagi \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog2\/?p=4040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-792\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mingeikan-512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mingeikan-512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mingeikan-512-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mingeikan-512-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog2\/?p=4040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab Mingeikan \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog\/?p=7056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-794\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yanagi-suspension-512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yanagi-suspension-512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yanagi-suspension-512-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yanagi-suspension-512-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog\/?p=7056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab L&rsquo;esprit Mingei au Japon \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog\/?p=433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-806\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/super-normal-512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/super-normal-512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/super-normal-512-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/super-normal-512-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog\/?p=433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab Super Normal \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qiSPerSyccU\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nVid\u00e9o du 19 janvier 2007, mise en ligne \u00e0 l&rsquo;occasion de l&rsquo;exposition Sori Yanagi au Mus\u00e9e national d&rsquo;art moderne de Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Sur les sites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domusweb.it\/en\/design\/goodbye-sori-yanagi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Domus<\/em><\/a>, ou <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/8\/view\/18378\/sori-yanagi-obituary-by-jasper-morrison.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Designboom<\/em><\/a>, on trouve ce t\u00e9moignage de Jasper Morrison&nbsp;:<\/p>\n<p>Jasper Morrison has sent us a tribute to sori yanagi, a key figure in the reconciliation among craft and industry who died on dec. 25, 2011. Over the course of a career that spanned more than 60 years, Yanagi created a vast array of industrial objects for a quotidian use with an emphasis on simplicity, practicality and natural beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Sori Yanagi, the japanese designer famous for his butterfly stool, made from two identical plywood mouldings, has died in Tokyo aged 96. His career spanned a period which saw the birth of post war japan\u2019s industrialisation and it\u2019s relatively recent surrender to Korea and China as factory floors for the world\u2019s electronic goods.<\/p>\n<p>Yanagi was born in Tokyo in 1915 and grew up in the Japanese equivalent of an arts and crafts house across the street from the Mingei Kan (japanese crafts museum) which his father Soetsu established together with the ceramicists Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai. Their understanding of korean and japanese folk art was based on an intuitive appreciation of the beauty of things made unselfconsciously, and the discussions which their discoveries provoked, led to a cultural awakening in pre-war japan which had long been absent.<\/p>\n<p>The inadequacy of industrial production and the importance and superiority of objects made by hand for unpretencious everyday purposes was a constant theme of his father\u2019s essays and looking at the hundreds of everyday objects which resulted from yanagi\u2019s six decade design career, from manhole covers to tea cups and drinking water fountains, it seems the message was well received, each one of them having about it all the spirit an object needs to overcome the orphan-like disadvantages of an industrial birth.<\/p>\n<p>His students days were marked by the teaching of Charlotte Perriand, the french designer responsible for most of the furniture attributed to Le Corbusier, who travelled to japan in the 1940\u2019s on a government grant with a mission to inspire young Japanese designers. In 1957 he travelled to Milan, then in its hey day as the design capital of the world, for the 11th Milan triennale where he exhibited his butterfly stool. Back in Tokyo his design office finally settled in the studio where he was to continue working for the last 4 decades of his career.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to visit Sori Yanagi\u2019s studio, a half submerged day-lit cube in a modernist building of the 1970\u2019s. The room was no bigger than 40 square metres, and manouvreability limited to narrow passages between islands of models, books and industrial samples. at the time, assistants were busy modelling saucepan handles, while I took in the atmosphere. It was evident that for sori yanagi a design needed to be modelled, in the original sense of the word, before it could be drawn up for production.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years his kitchenware designs have attracted something of a cult following, appreciated for there usefulness as much as their beauty. It seems probable that sori yanagi spent his life trying to invent a future for his father\u2019s appreciation of things, reconciling the two worlds of craft and industry by adapting the benefits of the handmade with the advantages of industrial production, with a mind and an eye trained from an early age to know how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>His recent decline in health combined with a certain lack of attention from Europe\u2019s design media and institutions, denied the west the retrospective exhibition and magazine coverage he deserved. Though he rarely made public appearances in later years, in 2006 he attended an exhibition curated by Naoto Fukasawa and myself called <em>Super Normal<\/em>, which featured a number of his pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Wandering among the exhibits he stopped to appreciate some of them, finally settling on a salad bowl with combined strainer that he had designed several years earlier \u00ab\u00a0it\u2019s beautiful, who did it?\u00a0\u00bb he asked with a slight smile and twinkling eyes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yanagi-bowl.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-imagelightbox=\"1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-770\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yanagi-bowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Sori Yanagi&rsquo;s salad bowl with combined strainer<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La presse fran\u00e7aise n&rsquo;a pas mentionn\u00e9, me semble-t-il, la mort de Sori Yanagi (\u67f3\u5b97\u7406) le 25 d\u00e9cembre dernier. Je l&rsquo;apprends en \u00e9coutant l&rsquo;\u00e9mission d&rsquo;architecture de Fran\u00e7ois Chaslin sur France culture, ce dimanche 8 janvier 2012. Au milieu des ann\u00e9es 90, L. avait fait acheter pour le d\u00e9partement d&rsquo;arts plastiques de Paris 8, des tabourets Elephant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/?p=757\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture de <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dossier : Sori Yanagi (1915-2011)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,93,24,74],"tags":[129,127,128,121],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-dossiers","category-monuments","category-personnes","tag-cuillere","tag-japon","tag-sori-yanagi","tag-tasse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlggb.net\/blog3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}