Home › Gifts › Silk Art Tea Table

Silk Art Tea Table

It a original black tea table and chair made by Itoko, the Tea table was awarded a Kyoto Design award 2014. Itoko has been developing their silk brocade technique, silk combinated with materials such as strenghened glass and glass fiber.
Shade: Silk embroidery design viewed by adding the lighting.
Table top: The silk is glued between two chemically reinforced composite glass plates which are commonly used for smart-phones and solar panels.
The eletric stove

Object ID 738
Type Gifts
Donor Kyokane Tsuji
Country Japan
Material wood, silk, glass
Location S
Place Palazzo Coppini, Firenze

Notes

The Silk Art Tea Table was borrowed to:

- Firenze Magnifico Club (8-12.10. 2015) for the exhibition in Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Firenze

- 150th anniversary of relations between Japan and Italy. Japanese art exhibition, Auditorium al Duomo (17-20.6.2016), Firenze

Return to the collection