Masa Designs: Tojinbo Cliffs Hachi (Bowl) Rita Sowins An essay by Julian Rose

An essay by Julian Rose provides an in-depth examination of the monolithic nature of Serra’s work and its engagement with architecture on its own terms

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each work is at once a completely autonomous composition and a suggestive synecdoche of the greater aesthetic reality that lies beyond its limits

The book is wrapped in a life-size reproduction of the Observer article and includes a bookmark

but maintains an acute sensitivity to the fine details of objects

Masa Designs: Tojinbo Cliffs Hachi (Bowl) Rita Sowins An essay by Julian RoseInspired by the Tjinb Cliffs of Fukui Prefecture in Japan, this bowl was designed by legendary chef Masayoshi Takayama, known as Masa, to serve as an ice basin for keeping an open sake bottle cold, but may also be used as a salad bowl. Each is unique in color and shape, ensuring no two pieces are alike. Following the seven principles of shibusasimplicity, implicitness, modesty, naturalness, imperfection, everydayness, and silencethe Masa Designs