Canon has partnered with a household of artisans who concentrate on a selected kind of lacquered woodwork to provide a restricted run of tablewear impressed by its lens hoods.
Canon labored collectively with the Alvori Firm and Takumitou Lacquerware to create the set of lacquered wood dishes and cups.
Alvori has been working with craftsmen to create distinctive merchandise that make the most of conventional Japanese methods. One different instance of Alvori’s work with Canon was its Edo Kiriko Lens ingesting glasses that have been launched in late 2020. This time, Alvori partnered with Takumitou Lacquerware.
Wooden Laquer Artisans
This explicit technique of lacquered wooden known as Yamanaka and is a conventional craft made primarily in Kaga Metropolis within the Ishikawa Prefecture of Japan and information of the follow date again to not less than 1609.
As described by Kogei Japan:
Yamanaka lacquerware (referred to as Yamanaka shikki in Japanese) is a kind of lacquerware made within the Yamanaka Onsen (scorching spring) district of town of Kaga, Ishikawa prefecture. It makes use of an authentic Yamanaka approach for grinding wooden. The primary objects produced are spherical utensils like bowls and saucers. Most of the wooden bases for tea ceremony utensils equivalent to tea caddies are floor in Yamanaka. This lacquerware is particular as a result of it combines the fantastic thing about the pure wooden grain and stylish maki-e which is a method of sprinkling powder of gold, silver, or varied different colours onto a lacquer drawing.
Yamanaka lacquerware is available in two types: mokusei shikki which is conventional lacquerware with pure wooden that has been processed and painted with lacquer, and kindai shikki or fashionable lacquerware which consists of a urethane coating on a plastic base.
The artisans that Alvori chosen for this challenge have been in enterprise since 1910.
Three Lens Hood-Impressed Designs
The challenge options three completely different lens hood-inspired dishes: one within the petal form, one with a barely cylinder, and one straight cylinder made in what is called Raden course of.
The “hana” design, which suggests “flower” in Japanese, options what Canon describes as a “wavy silhouette,” like a flower. It may be seen side-by-side with the inspiration for the design beneath.
The following design is extra akin to the usual Canon lens hood and encompasses a slight taper on the backside. It’s described as having a easy tubular form. It’s best suited to drinks.
The final merchandise makes use of a method often known as Raden, which is the method of embedding shells which have been polished to a really skinny 0.1mm and may subsequently showcase the “brilliance” of the shell’s rainbow colours.
The three gadgets are described as having a number of makes use of. For instance, the petal-shaped dish can be utilized for snacks, as a coaster, and even as an ashtray. The Raden cup and the usual tubular cup are each finest suited to having fun with drinks.
The picture beneath reveals one of many Edo Kiriko glasses impressed by Canon lenses sitting neatly contained in the petal-shaped lacquer bowl.
Canon is providing these artisan wood dishes by way of Makuake, a crowdfunding website in Japan. The petal dish is on the market for as little as 7,920 yen (about $65), the usual cylinder for as little as 5,940 yen (about $48), and the Raden cup for as little as 15,840 yen (about $130), relying on pledge degree.
The challenge is restricted to a complete sale of 80 items throughout the three designs and every might be produced by a craftsman and is to be delivered by July of 2022.
