Studio Furniture of the Renwick Gallery by Oscar P. Fitzgerald

Author:Oscar P. Fitzgerald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

SHINICHI MIYAZAKI

born 1939

Tokyo, Japan

Armchair*

1975, oak, teak, leather, and brass, 29 ½ × 24 × 26. Museum purchase, 1975.173

SHINICHI MIYAZAKI TRAINED AS A PAINTER IN JAPAN and immigrated in 1967, working first as an assistant to sculptor Minoru Niizuma in New York City. Eventually, Miyazaki set up his own shop, where he designed and built furniture and created fine interior woodworking. At one point, he made full-scale models for sculptor Isamu Noguchi. In the late 1970s, he turned to making hand-dyed, down-filled coats with his first wife, a textile designer. In the early 1980s, he returned to woodworking full time, and in 1991, began specializing in elegant wood handbags inspired by traditional Japanese carrying bags. Since 2003, Miyazaki has again focused mainly on furniture and sculpture in his shop in rural Massachusetts.

He submitted Armchair to Craft Multiples, an exhibition organized in 1975 by the Renwick Gallery, which purchased it shortly thereafter. The leather upholstery passes through slots in the rails and is held with dowels inserted through sewn sleeves. The seat and crest rails are attached to the frame with through tenons fastened by teak keys. The oak side pieces are joined with unique curvilinear joints, a reference to traditionally complex Japanese joinery, which is both decorative and functional. Although the chair is easily reproducible, Miyazaki only made a few copies before moving on to other projects.

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