Sori Yanagi

Sōri Yanagi
Yanagi in 1952
BornJune 29, 1915 (1915-06-29)
DiedDecember 25, 2011(2011-12-25) (aged 96)
Tokyo, Japan.
NationalityJapanese
Alma materTokyo Art School
Notable workButterfly Stool (1954),
Elephant Stool (1954)

Sōri Yanagi (柳 宗理, Yanagi Sōri; 29 June 1915 – 25 December 2011) was a Japanese industrial designer. He played a role in Japanese modern design developed after World War II to the high-growth period in the Japanese economy. He is both a representative of the wholly Japanese modern designer and a full-blown modernist who merged simplicity and practicality with elements of traditional Japanese crafts.