Akari 10A - Floor Lantern sculpture Handcrafted in Hawke's Bay

Handcrafted in Hawke's Bay

Richard Penn's Artifact series: The Futurist Artifact series are a group of ceramic objects imagined as the remnants of a lost future civilisation

Material: Cotton canvas

•Dimensions:H600 x W420 mm

Leonard Koren

Akari 10A - Floor Lantern sculpture Handcrafted in Hawke's BayTraditional Japanese paper lantern designed by Isamu Noguchi. 'Akari' means 'Light' in Japanese, and alludes to both physical lightness and illumination. Isamu Noguchi has had a life time of experimentation and a successful, multi disciplinary art practice. He designed the first Akari lamp in 1951, after learning about traditional paper lanterns in Gifu, Japan. In his quest for creating a sculpture of light that was was experienced like natural light,