The Flowervase was one of a series of pieces we produced with E&Y between 1995 and 1997, working closely with founder Yoichi Nakamuta in Japan. E&Y were one of the first companies to take a serious interest in our work and the collaboration came at a formative moment, giving us our earliest exposure to Japanese manufacturing culture and the rigorous material standards that define it. The Flowervase is a simple, considered object: a steel vessel whose geometry is derived entirely from its function, with no decorative addition of any kind. It was first shown as part of a solo exhibition at the E&Y Gallery in Kyoto in 1996, and sits within a broader body of work from that period that also included furniture and interior objects. Pieces from the E&Y collaboration are held in the permanent collections of MoMA New York, the Design Museum in London, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.
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