Honey-Pop chair
Honey-Pop Chair
2001 (designed), 2005 (made)
2001 (designed), 2005 (made)
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The Honey-Pop chair is similar to a concertina-folded Chinese lantern with a cellular structure. This example of the chair has been retained unopened, when all the layers of paper are flat, to demonstrate a stage in the production of the chair. The paper shape is the side of the chair with the front of the seat on the left and the back on the right. To make the chair, the form would be stood upright on its base, and the paper structure would gradually be expanded on the left side to form the seat, making a fan shape that pivots from the right side. There is no other structure to the chair: the user simply sits on paper and air.
Object details
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| Title | Honey-Pop chair (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Concertina-folded paper |
| Brief description | Honey-Pop chair, flat form of white concertina-folded paper, by Tokujin Yoshioka, designed Japan 2001, made 2005 |
| Physical description | Flat form made of layers of white concertina-folded paper, similar to a Chinese lantern before it has been opened. Inscribed vertically along the right edge in black '19 MAY 2005 Tokujin Y 126/300A'. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 19 MAY 2005 Tokujin Y 126/300A (Hand written inscription in black ink, written vertically up the right hand side of the object. Tokujin Y is the signature of the designer. The chair is no.126 of an edition of 300.) |
| Credit line | Given by Tokujin Yoshioka |
| Summary | The Honey-Pop chair is similar to a concertina-folded Chinese lantern with a cellular structure. This example of the chair has been retained unopened, when all the layers of paper are flat, to demonstrate a stage in the production of the chair. The paper shape is the side of the chair with the front of the seat on the left and the back on the right. To make the chair, the form would be stood upright on its base, and the paper structure would gradually be expanded on the left side to form the seat, making a fan shape that pivots from the right side. There is no other structure to the chair: the user simply sits on paper and air. |
| Associated object | W.5-2005 (Pair) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | W.6-2005 |
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| Record created | June 21, 2005 |
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