Beschreibung:
The oldest urushi object is about 9,000 years old and was found in Hokkaido, Japan. Fast forward to the 21st Century and you will find Max Lamb travelling, on numerous occasions since 2013, to Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan to work with the craft of urushi lacquer. Max Lamb is a designer with a mission: give him an existing tool, or an existing material, or indeed both, and he will single-handedly transform it into something you will find immediately familiar but which you have never seen before.00This time (and time is the essence here), Max?s hyperactive no nonsense, no small talk attitude comes face to face with the incompressible time-making necessities of the urushi lacquer process. In this technique, the resinous sap from the lacquer tree ?toxicodendron vernicifluum? is slowly (extremely slowly by today?s production standards) coated layer by layer by layer, typically onto a wooden object, to create a stunningly crafted and highly durable product.00For this body of work comprising tables, cabinets, shelves, stools, benches and chairs, Max Lamb learnt to work in a new way that relies on other people?s rituals and language, his modus operandi both uniting and colliding with the skills and minds of more than 23 craftspeople