kaworu’s a small silver spoon akiya

At one time, that was the high-class apartment, the building which says, goes.

Tokyo where the scenery of the town changes bewilderingly.Is also Ginza, but that you think whether on the one hand, it is not the town where still the veteran business has persevered. It is old, it comes well and trace is left by here and there, while finding such a fragment, wander it is the town whose it is pleasant to walk.

As for the Okuno building the building which was built in Showa first stage.At one time, the singer and the dancer and the civilian etc had lived as a high-class apartment, it was the cheerful place, so is. Presently the gallery connects the eaves countlessly, it has become the unique space. To be old there is an appearance, the outdated modern building quite the aparutoman like atmosphere of Paris. Because the elevator it is manually operated, the fence of the heavy bellows the gu [gu] – the tsu pushing, it goes in.The person who is riding to hold down the fence mutually, in small worry, it is old, it comes well and Ginza seems it seems that can be inferred. Rising to the 4th floor, it arrives to the intended place. With small gallery “Ecru+HM”, the spoon was displayed.

Heart you are attracted to the many small spoons

In order for kirakira and the star to twinkle, the many small spoons had lined up. the material is all silver, do not have the same thing as one. delicate and elegant, like a little excited, small pattern has been drawn. its pattern, also a primitive ethnic, romantic and gorgeous but there, there is also prettily in the heartwarming fairy tale. if you spend a view about, you entice me into the world of fantasy.

mr. kaoru, the author of this spoon akiya. 20when i was a teen, interested in the goldsmithing5but so was learning years, can not be reached to make spoon, there was a regret is somehow. then marriage, through child-rearing, afford the time came out in my life, i was able to have the opportunity to touch the metal. encounters a good teacher, after repeated trial and error learned on his own, is now so came to the style of.

create a form in hammering, put the pattern in the goldsmiths’

shape of the spoon, hammering (tan kin) have been made in the technique called. stretched in the hammer hitting the metal, will continue to love working in shape. so go forth with all hand-made, will change shape slightly watered down in trivial. just another spoon20mr. akiya that has been making more than a year.

let them take a lot of people to hand in, gimme a with, if you think, now spoon. it is difficult to balance a spoon-shaped, which might explain why it also has been making. in the figure seen from the front, reed, also thought, yet it seems different when viewed from behind, or thought. to complete the form and his ideal, look at the shape from a number of different directions, little by little we will close. one by one, game a sense of their own hands. at first, but did not go quite well, gradually during the long, has become convinced of their own form goes .

spoon is shaped to the finished, all dainty pattern has an associated. this is the work of engraving. “it was”by using a tool called, we will engrave the metal. writer is also often homemade chisel itself, sharpened by filing, the finish to the blade of your choice. relief is also fine as a needle, we will carefully carved carefully one by one.

because the very small, simply take a picture from a distance the appearance of the exhibition, i think i do not know any better what a spoon. on the next page, i tried to close up one by one spoon.

in the next page, delicate and beautiful close-up pattern!

polite and delicate and lovely as possible, our silver spoon

material is a silver spoon all. i heard that once tried a lot of material, or tender or kataka~tsu, not like rap or not. most comfortable dealing with yourself have, material was a silver or feel at home. there is a quiet and thick, also shine like the moon, says it’s silver charm.

this time it was the most difficult, tea strainer.
we carefully opened one by one patiently holes also.

this time, photo of a small shiny things very difficult, in my photographic technique, i’m sorry did not come in to tell a real charm, because i wanted to show you absolutely fine decoration, i tried to shoot approaching omoikkiri. (although a slightly golden tinge of color in relation to light, because the silver material, is actually a silver. )

friendly design is somewhere strange as a foreign country, style not afford only to mr. akiya.
black tea, coffee, and jam, it is believed that as an appropriate amount of each can save.

difference is not so likely, inspiration for the distinctive patterns spinning, where on earth will come from?

idea of the design, we rolled around the daily life. watch tv or read a book, it may also go to museums etc.. spoon made from a part of the life style for me, i would not have been natural and easy to catch. you may have to worry about somehow always. there are by their own boom period, in the exhibition, for example, flower or japanese-style or straight line or, you have to make something out of a variety of taste .

butter knife and cake server, there was also a sugar tongs and pick, etc..

molding of a spoon is a pretty heavy lifting. texturing is accompanied by further detailed, it takes time and effort very. mr. akiya soft yoga while, has been prepared so the muscles of the arm. you also feel like hard work at first glance, i think that there are people willing to take us to the hand, spoon to make fun, it is said that is also the reason for living.

akiya’s spoon is, there are elegant goods, spoon imagination swells. carefully brewed the tea a little bother, want to spend a quiet relaxing moments, convinced me that if there were an is a spoon. i never even tea time, important things will be very rich one spoon.

contact
Ecru+HM (ecru eichiemu)
ginza, chuo-ku, tokyo1-9-8 bill okuno4F
tel n/a
opening hours 12:30－19:00 (last day of the exhibition17:00to) irregular
http://www.ecruplushm.com/

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