モチリ椀

明治35年より三代にわたり、石川県加賀地方から暮らしを豊かにする漆工芸品を世に届けてきた瑾齋。山中漆器400年の技術とo-lab inc.のコラボレーションにより、もっちりとした張りのある曲面の高台が鏡餅のようなくびれで椀部と繋がったユニークなお椀が生まれました。高い挽物技術による軽やかで彫刻的な造形。縦木取り特有の欅の美しい杢目を機能的に引き立てる丁寧な拭漆。毎日触れることのできる芸術品は、従来の漆器のイメージにとらわれずに自由に使いたくなります。

Founded in 1902, Kinsai has spent three generations bringing lacquer craft pieces from the Kaga region of Ishikawa Prefecture into everyday life. Through a collaboration between the 400-year tradition of Yamanaka lacquerware and o-lab inc., a unique bowl has been created: its softly rounded, gently taut pedestal curves inward like kagami-mochi, a traditional two-tiered New Year’s rice-cake offering, before flowing into the bowl above. The form is light, sculptural, and made possible by exceptional woodturning skill. A carefully applied fuki-urushi finish, in which lacquer is wiped into the wood to reveal and protect the grain, brings out the beauty of the zelkova, cut vertically to enhance both its character and function. An artwork made to be touched every day, this piece invites freer use, unconstrained by conventional ideas of lacquerware.