As movable as butterflies - Les chochin du Japon

Exhibition from January 31st to May 19th, 2019

 

Language(s) français / anglais

Published 2019

Category catalogue d'exposition

Topics Design

 

Publication supervisor

Étienne Tornier, curator in charge of 19th-21st century collection, musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design, Bordeaux



With the contributions of

Dr. Anne Gossot, University professor, University Bordeaux Montaigne - Clare (EA 4593)

Dr. Damien Kunik, University of Geneva, Department of East Asian Studies

Constance Rubini, Director of the musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design, Bordeaux

Étienne Tornier, curator in charge of 19th-21st century collection, musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design, Bordeaux



Graphic design

Sandrine Nugue

Summary



Preface

By Alain Juppé



They still sparkle

By Etienne Tornier



• Fireflies in the night. Notes on the history of paper lanterns

A place of memory in chiaroscuro

By Damien Kunik



• From bamboo and paper: the manufacture of chochin



Towards permanent daylight. The gas, oil and electricity revolution

By Anne Gossot



• Birth of Akari



Paper lamps in Saint-Germain-des-prés

By Constance Rubini



Variations around the chochin

By Etienne Tornier

Pages 72 p.

Dimensions 20,5 x 32 cm

Binding spiral

ISBN 979-10-96865-01-7

Copublisher Paris, Editions Norma