Japan Industrial Designer : Sori Yanagi

Japan Industrial Designer : Sori Yanagi

Sori Yanagi, Japan Industrial Designer. Born in 29 June 1915 and died at 25 December 2011,(96 years old), he live in Tokyo,Japan. He was studies both Art and Architecture in Tokyo Art School at 1934. In his step in his career, he played a role in Japanese modern design developed after World War 2 to the high-growth period in the Japanese economy. He also name the top 1st Industrial designer in Japan.he had work in Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (UK) in 2008.

He was the Professor of Renjin Ze University of Arts and Crafts in 1954. In 1977, he employed Art Director of Japanese Folk Crafts Museum,. He is both a representative of the whole Japanese modern designer and a full-blown modernist who merged simplicity and practicality with elements of traditional Japanese crafts


















Principle of Sori Yanagi Design.
Aesthetics  is useful in design.-Good design must meet the Japanese aesthetics and ethics, showing the characteristics of Japan.
Purpose of design is creativity.-Design's purpose is to create a more superior product than the past, is not really designed to imitate.
Traditional itself from creating design.- such as from tradition is unthinkable. 

Real design to face the reality, face to the fashion, trends challenge.-He criticized only on the material conditions of existence of contemporary design and fashion tastes and other undesirable tendencies succumb. His own products designed to integrate Western modernism and Japanese national sentiment in one.

Replica Sori Yanagi Butterfly Stool

At 1956, he designed a curved plywood with metal fittings butterfly stool, which is a combination of functionalism and traditional craftsmanship.