Taiki Sugishima | Squre Brass Box

Squre Brass Box

Artist: Taiki Sugishima

25,000 yen ($166.55 USD)

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Tinned Lined Lidded Brass Box / materials: Brass, Tin, Rattan / size 7.5cm x 7.5cm x h8.5cm

Small brass box has tin lined interior and a handle decorated with bound rattan. The brass has no treatment and will age to a darker patina. (*please note carefully the v small dimensions)

Taiki Sugishima
Taiki Sugishima is skilled in using the natural properties of metal to produce vessels with both beautiful, distinctive forms and expressive textures and surfaces. Sugishima who is skilled at both tankin (hammering) and forging techniques often shapes his vessels using the technique shibori, a process that allows the shaping of hollow forms from a flat sheet of metal by repeated hammering.

Sugishima completed the doctoral program in Sculpture at Hiroshima City University Graduate School of Arts in 2001. He later studied the traditional Japanese metalware craft of tankin as well as forging, with two craftsmen skilled in the respective techniques. Currently he produces a variety of work in different materials from cooking pots and utensils to objects, sculptural pieces, and custom work for architectural projects..