What a tour de force of design, a complex geometric tetrapod of black clay combined with Oya-stone by Takeuchi Kouzo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hakubyaku (White and Black). It is 31 x 24.5 x 39 cm (12-1/2 x 10 x 15 inches) and is in excellent condition.The Beginnings of Integration with Different Materials: The idea for this series began because people often mistook my works for paper. By incorporating different materials, the contrast became more pronounced, and I thought it would draw more focus on the white porcelain. I use stone, iron, wood, and glass as dissonant materials.
Oya Stone (Oya-ishi in Japanese) has been quarried since the Edo period, and became a major industry during the Meiji era.The Imperial Hotel designed by Frank Loyd Wright used Oya Stone as it’s basic building blocks.
Takeuchi Kouzo was born in Hyogo prefecture in 1977, and graduated the Osaka University of Arts in 2001 before advancing his studies at the Tajimi Municipal Ceramic Design Institute where he graduated in 2003.Beside an extensive list of solo exhibits in Japan he has been subject of exhibition in Paris and Boston as well as the Hyogo prefectural Ceramics Museum in 2024.His work decorates the Ritz Carlton Hotels in Tokyo and Kyoto, The Peninsula and Palace Hotels in Tokyo, the Mandarin Oriental in Shanghai, and the flagship Hoshinoya Resorts in both Tokyo and Kyoto among others. He is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Museum of Ceramic Art in Hyogo, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Museum Sernuschi in Paris among others.
