The Midnight Abstract Avant-Garde — Japanese Ceremonial Silk Lumbar Pillow, Modernist in Indigo and Black
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A lumbar pillow cover in Japanese ceremonial silk, cut from a Nishijin fukuro obi (袋帯): a modernist abstract — the loom's own avant-garde language — across an indigo-black ground. Envelope-pocket back, no metal against the silk; 50 × 31 cm (also 36 × 31 cm). For modern, graphic rooms. Spot clean only. Unrepeatable, finished at the Renaras atelier, Amsterdam. Modernist avant-garde. The chapter in Japanese textile design that absorbed European modernism and reinterpreted it through silk — the loom's own abstract language. Against an indigo-black silk ground, abstract modernist forms move with the deliberate disruption of Japanese modernist graphic design. The composition borrows from the chapter when Japanese weaving traditions absorbed modernist influence and answered with their own avant-garde — refined, structured, never decorative for its own sake. The indigo gives the composition its night. The form gives it its discipline. A pillow for monochrome sofas, modernist apartments, dark walnut studies — quiet beauty for ordinary moments, gathered around a shared table. The face is the original silk, backed in undyed linen. Envelope pocket closure. No metal touches the visible silk. Product type Lumbar pillow cover Silk source Japanese ceremonial obi (pre-loved); origin Japan. Weave / technique Nishijin-ori 西陣織 (fukuro obi 袋帯) Motif Modernist abstract (the loom's own avant-garde language) Construction Envelope-pocket closure; no metal against the visible silk Dimensions 50 × 31 cm; also 36 × 31 cm Origin of silk Japan Assembled in Amsterdam, Netherlands Care Spot clean only Unrepeatable Yes SKU REN-PIL-001-L Renaras: Japanese ceremonial silk, reimagined for daily life. Each piece arrives with its own passport from the atelier — a small handmade record of the silk's first life and its transformation, signed and dated in Amsterdam. One silk. One story. One piece. Never repeated.
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Item The Midnight Abstract Avant-Garde — Japanese Ceremonial Silk Lumbar Pillow, Modernist in Indigo and Black
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