Brass Futagami Pen Pot

It is no coincidence that this brass object was produced in Takaoka, a town also home to the 3rd largest Japanese bronze Buddha statue, 16m high and 65 tons heavy, made by local craftspeople in the 1930s. Actually Takaoka accounts for 90% of all copperware and brass craft items made in the country, principally religious paraphernalia, such as temple bells, buddhist altars and lanterns. Suitably the foundry now embraces Buddhist aesthetic notion of Wabi-Sabi applied to design, allowing for the self-expression of the brass material's barest characteristics. An alloy of zinc and copper, brass is molten onto a fine sand mould, and presented Ihada, meaning in a naked and raw state. Bar minimal polish to smooth over sharp edges, the brass is left untreated, no antioxidants are applied. The surfaces' irregular skin like texture is allowed to live - forever evolving in colour and oxidation with use and contact with hands and air. Bring a little of this philosophical notion to your desk by way of this beautiful raw object.