Boat Stationery Bowl (OUT OF STOCK)

Ryuji Mitani

• Introduction

  I am a Boat Stationery Bowl. Once I carried tea, now I carry ideas one pencil voyage at a time.

   

• Curator's Notes 

  There’s something irresistibly charming about this Boat Stationery Bowl. Originally born from Mitani’s Boat Chashaku, a tea scoop shaped like a small vessel, this expanded version carries that same sense of whimsy into the desk space. Now stretched long enough to cradle pencils, it feels like a tiny steamliner ferrying your favorite tools across the table. Mitani put it beautifully when he said, "a boat connects where you are now to somewhere else. When you feel like going somewhere, the shape of a small boat nearby can quietly carry your thoughts away."

  The shape captures what we love most about Mitani’s work—his ability to take an everyday object and, through proportion and form, give it both function and narrative. What was once for tea now holds the implements of writing, floating effortlessly between ritual and imagination.

   

  Boat Stationery Bowl was curated by Stevenson Aung

   

• Designer/Maker 

   

  Maker: Ryuji Mitani

   

  Designer: Ryuji Mitani

   

• Specifications

   

  Dimensions: 

  3.4" (w) x 11.4" (l) x 1.8" (h) or 86mm (w) x 270mm (l) x 46mm (h)

   

  Weight: 

  8.0 oz or 227 g

   

  Materials: Mountain Cherry Wood, Lacquer

   

• Details
  • Handcrafted in Matsumoto, Japan
    
  • Ideally sized for storing pens, pencils, small knickknacks, and other stationary goods
    
  • Features a beige interior and upper body with a black underside
    
  • Hand-carved piece
    
  • Each piece is unique and will have variations 
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