Erik Thomsen Gallery and Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts are pleased to invite you to upcoming joint exhibition at both Erik Thomsen Gallery and Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts.

Brought up in a basket-weaving family but also trained as a lacquerer, over the decades Ikeda has developed a unique and expressive combination of two of Japan's most revered natural materials. Marrying the strength and solidity of bamboo with the subdued luster of red, black, and gold urushi (lacquer), he makes pieces that both celebrate and challenge traditional Japanese ideas of artistic elegance.