Heralded by lovers of ikebana and wabi-sabi, Yoshihiro Nishiyama creates handmade glassware hundreds of miles from Tokyo in the Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Light dances through Yoshihiro Nishiyama’s perfectly imperfect glassworks. Deeply influenced by glassware from the Edo, Meiji and Taisho periods, Yoshihiro is a master of Katabuki, a technique that uses a mold into which glass is blown–allowing for extremely light and thin glass with a characteristically expressive surface that “makes you feel like you are floating on the surface of a lake.” In the words of the artist, “Although glass is usually considered cold, in reality it also has warmth and softness, which I try to express.”
Tall Octagon Bottle
BY Yoshihiro Nishiyama
$450 USD
Used as a bottle or a vase, Yoshihiro Nishiyama’s transparent glass vessel’s octagonal form lends geometric rigor to the artist’s signature textural surfaces. Style A is differentiated by its soft shoulders and slim neck. A master of Katabuki (kata meaning “mold” and buki meaning “blow”), he manipulates the temperature of his hand-blown pieces while experimenting with gravity to forge rippled, light-dancing finishes that he likens to “floating on the surface of a lake.”
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