Sori Yanagi

Sōri Yanagi was born in 1915 in Tokyo, Japan. His father is Soetsu Yanagi, founder of the Japanese folk crafts Mingei movement, which celebrated the beauty of everyday objects. He entered Tokyo Art School in 1934, where he studied both art and architecture. He was a Japanese industrial designer who played a role in Japanese modern design developed after World War II to the high-growth period in the Japanese economy. He is both a representative of the Japanese modern designer and a full-blown modernist who merged simplicity and practicality with elements of traditional Japanese crafts.