Hōkoku zushū / hissha Sawada Seiichirō, Sanfuranshisuko Bankoku Hakurankai Kyoto Shuppin Kyōkai : [volume 3]

1915 · Kyoto : Unsōdō · 15 pictures

A 1915 Kyoto publication, printed by Unsōdō and compiled by Sawada Seiichirō for the Kyoto exhibitors' association at the San Francisco Panama-Pacific exposition, showing Japanese product designs. The four pictures are flat colour plates of table lamps with pierced shades in Art Nouveau and geometric forms, in blue, mauve, yellow-green and olive tones. A designer could take from them simple silhouettes of stepped and tapered lamp bases and cut-out shade patterns that read clearly at small sizes.

Color prints, Japanese -- 20th century · Wood-engraving, Japanese -- 20th century

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