Etsumi Imamura is a Japanese painter and designer. She was educated in fine art in Japan, the UK and the U.S. and has worked in graphic, interior, and furniture design for the past 20 years. Her family has been well known in Osaka since about 1704 when they set up a foundry there to create work for the Buddhist temples and for other secular projects in the Kansai area. Both her father and brother are contemporary sculptors. The projects in furniture and lighting design she is working on currently bring a handmade quality to objects that typically today are only mass produced. For example, the steel Toffoli light fixture requires the assembly by hand of approximately 50 separate pieces. The success of these various design projects is related to her being able to bring a conceptual analysis into play that allows for an exploration of the deep historical resonances that lie at the bottom of and are unique to each problem. She is currently the principal designer at Imamura Designs, a design company working in New York City's East Village and Osaka, Japan.
Etsumi Imamura
Studios
Mixter
Etsumi Imamura worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…