Yoshihiro Nishiyama Large Octagon Bottle beds Edited by Melanie Grant

Edited by Melanie Grant

Olly Smith

After hand-cutting and hand-polishing her pieces

Foreword by Ben Stiller

Yoshihiro Nishiyama Large Octagon Bottle beds Edited by Melanie GrantHeralded by lovers of ikebana and wabi sabi, Yoshihiro Nishiyama creates handmade glassware hundreds of miles from Tokyo in the Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Light dances through Yoshihiro Nishiyama's perfectly imperfect glass works. Deeply influenced by glassware from the Edo, Meiji and Taisho periods, Yoshihiro is a master of Katabuki, a technique that uses a mold into which glass is blownallowing for extremely light and thin glasses with a