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Untitled table lamp
Wendy Maruyama (American, born in 1952)
1976
Medium/Technique
Teak and lighting parts
Dimensions
Height x width x depth: 24 x 17 x 17 in. (61 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm)
Credit Line
The Wornick Fund for Contemporary Craft
Accession Number2023.588
ClassificationsFurniture
In a recent reflection on making this work, Maruyama noted how her inspiration began in an undergraduate studio when her teacher, “rather than showing us specific joinery methods or structuring lessons based on furniture … [told us] to make something ‘inspired by nature.’” Made of teak shaped through bent lamination in which thinly sliced strips of wood are glued together, Maruyama made this lamp in the 1970s while studying at San Diego State University, an important hub for West Coast furniture and woodworking.
Maruyama later came to Boston for her graduate studies at the renowned Program in Artisanry at Boston University in the late 1970s before heading to the Rochester Institute of Technology to complete her training.
Maruyama later came to Boston for her graduate studies at the renowned Program in Artisanry at Boston University in the late 1970s before heading to the Rochester Institute of Technology to complete her training.
Provenance2023, consigned by the artist to Superhouse Gallery, New York; 2023, sold by Superhouse Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 2023)