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Yoichi Ohira
Japanese • b. 1946
Biography
Glass art – hard, fragile, cold and often heavy – is not typically designed to be handled. Yoichi Ohira's luminous blown glass vessels, however, offer an exception to this trend. They are small and light enough to be turned in one's hands like a Wunderkammer specimen, inviting the viewer to admire his abstracted design vocabulary of gemstones, polished ivory, veined rocks, shimmering water, agate, moss and lichens. Ohira has been compared to Emile Gallé for his ability to emulate the natural world in glass. Comparisons may also be drawn to Jean Dunand's bronze vessels, Japanese rokusho patina and Otto Natzler's volcanic glazes – an impressive range of media to be translated into glass.
Yoichi Ohira graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, Tokyo in 1969. Shortly thereafter he took up a glassblowing apprenticeship at the Kagami Crystal Company, Ltd. In 1973 Ohira moved to Venice to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti; he graduated in 1978 earning the highest possible grade for his thesis, "The Aesthetics of Glass." In the late 1980s Ohira began collaborating with Murano glassmakers, earning the "Premio Selezione" of the Premio Murano in 1987.
Insights
Major collections featuring Ohira's work include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Corning Museum of Glass and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
"If I might compare myself to a composer...I could then compare Murano glassmakers to singers or instrumentalists."
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Yoichi Ohira
Vase, from the "Metamorfosi" series
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $21,590
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Yoichi Ohira
"Canne e Polvere" vase
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $7,620
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Yoichi Ohira
'Pioggia d’Inverno' vase
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £21,420
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Yoichi Ohira
'Silenzio' vase, from the 'Metamorfosi' series
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £8,820
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Yoichi Ohira
'Gioco del Fuoco' vase
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £25,200
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Yoichi Ohira
'La Notte' vase
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £17,640
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Yoichi Ohira
Bottle with stopper
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £10,080
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Yoichi Ohira
"Campo dei Fiori" vase
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $34,020
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Yoichi Ohira
"Un occhio e un petalo rosso" vase
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $12,600
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Yoichi Ohira
"Mosaico in verde-giada" vase
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,560
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Yoichi Ohira
"Polvere" vase
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,292
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Yoichi Ohira
"Foglie Autunnali" vase
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $12,600
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Yoichi Ohira
Vase
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £7,560
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Yoichi Ohira
Vase
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £27,720
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Yoichi Ohira
Vase, from the 'Caleidoscopio' series
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £9,450
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Yoichi Ohira
Vase
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500
Sold for £3,150
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Yoichi Ohira
"Cristallo Sommerso N. 32 - Scolpito" vase
Estimate $22,000 - 28,000
Sold for $23,750
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Yoichi Ohira
"Mosaico con polvere e a ghiaccio" vase
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $18,750
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Yoichi Ohira
"Foglie Autunnali" vase
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $11,250
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Yoichi Ohira
Unique "Composizione a Canne e Polvere" vase
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $22,500
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Yoichi Ohira
Unique "Finestre" vase
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $10,000
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Yoichi Ohira
Unique "Mosaico a Polvere" vase
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $17,500
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Yoichi Ohira
Unique 'Gioco del Fuoco' vase
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £18,750
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Yoichi Ohira
Unique ‘Polvere con finestre’ vase
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £17,500
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