item details
NameEphemera
ProductionHelen Mason; creating agency; 1960
Classificationbooks, programmes, journals, sales catalogs, scrapbooks
Materialspaper, printing paper, printing ink, photographic paper, photographic gelatin, silver, metal, Japanese paper
Techniquesprinting, handwriting, black-and-white photography, pasting, adhesive binding process
Registration NumberCA001136
Credit lineGift of Helen Mason, 2012
Overview
Ephemera collected by New Zealand potter Helen Mason when she attended the first World Design Conference (WoDeCo), held in Tokyo, Japan, 11-16 May 1960.
The conference was supported by the Japanese Government, and brought together Japanese designers, architects and industrial designers with their counterparts from Europe and the United States to discuss the theme 'Total Image for the 20th Century'.
To Helen Mason, Japan was also a pottery Mecca', and her trip included meeting local potters.
Objects:
- Programme, 'World Design Conference 1960 in Tokyo; 1960; The World Design Conference Foundation; Japan
- Trip journals
- Malcolm Mason's book 'Why Not Japan? relating to his trip to Japan in 1960 with wife, potter Helen Mason
- Kimono catalogue
- Photograph scrapbook