Bluprint: Ishinomaki Stool Project Creations to be Auctioned for a Good Cause

Ishinomaki Stool Project Creations to be Auctioned for a Good Cause

The Ishinomaki Stool Project features 10 local artists’ creations up for bidding in support of the Masungi Georeserve Foundation

By CATHERINE D. ONG

The Ishinomaki Stool is one of the first products ever made by Ishinomaki Laboratory. Designed by Keiji Ashizawa, it was made to attend to the need of displaced residents of Ishinomaki, Japan living in temporary housing after the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. A stool so iconic and symbolic that it has been welcomed into the permanent collection of the V&A Museum in 2015. It is made and offered locally in the Philippines by Lamana through Ishinomaki Laboratory’s initiative called Made in Local.

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