Tokujin Yoshioka

Luminaire, Miami

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Paola Antonelli, Objects of Design from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, p. 280

Ryu Niimi, Tokujin Yoshioka Design, London, 2006, pp. 126-131

Gareth Williams, The Furniture Machine: Furniture since 1990, London, 2006, p. 106

Marcus Fairs, 21st Century Design: New Design Icons from Mass Market to Avant-Garde, London, 2009, pp. 160-161

Tokujin Yoshioka and Kazuo Hashiba, Tokujin Yoshioka, New York, 2010, pp. 25-35

Jim Postell, Furniture Design, Hoboken, NJ, 2012, p. 240

Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Chairs: 1,000 Masterpieces of Modern Design, 1800 to the Present Day, London, 2012, p. 670

Vitra Design Museum, Atlas of Furniture Design, Weil am Rhein, 2019, pp. 760-761

Tokujin Yoshioka’s iconic “Honey-Pop” Armchair explores the relationship between design and the human body. The chair is composed of 120 sheets of thin glassine paper traditionally used to make lanterns. Inspired by patterns found in nature, Yoshioka layered and glued the delicate material to create a strong honeycomb structure. The present lot represents the “Honey-Pop” in its initial flattened state. Fanned out like an accordion, the paper opens into a three-dimensional seat that, once sat upon, will compress and permanently take the impression of the sitter. Having never been sat upon, this lot presents a rare opportunity for collectors to not only acquire a renowned piece of contemporary design, examples of which are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art, but also to personally set the form.