Danish stones

I am posting this for my dear friend Yvonne Graubæk.



I am happy to join the BCI 2010 China Tour....I look a lot forward to spend many days with people very dedicated to the stones.
I want to show you my stones, collected in Denmark.
All daisa are carved by me.
I also have stones from China and Japan, I will show them on an another occasion

Greetings from Yvonne

greetings yvone,
very nice stone,keep posting looking foward to it,
best regards,
alex

We look forward to meeting you in China. Only one week away. Bag is mostly packed and ready to go to a local grocery store to weight, must stay under the limit.

Thanks Alex
I hope to make nice pictures of my foreign stones during the winter, now I just wanted to show my danish stones, as they are closest to my hart....picture of the black stone, could show the stone better, sorry, I must try to improve.
Look forward to see many stones from arround the world on IBC.

Billy, I look forward to meet you, I am packing only very light clothes. And bring a weight, i case, my suitcase is about to gain a very high weight on a market, or in a shop.

Yvonne

hello again yvone,
looking foward to your other stone to post,take a visit at my site OGIE im from the philippines,give me your comment for me to improve also
regards
alex

[quote="landerloos"]I am posting this for my dear friend Yvonne Graubæk.

I am happy to join the BCI 2010 China Tour....I look a lot forward to spend many days with people very dedicated to the stones.
I want to show you my stones, collected in Denmark.
All daisa are carved by me.
I also have stones from China and Japan, I will show them on an another occasion

Greetings from Yvonne


Hi Yvonne - great stones, you have and have a very nice trip to China - hope you see some fine fabric - (and bring it home - you can always pack it around the stones. greatiings Lone

Dear Lone

Everything for you, my dear friend.
And yes, I am sure it will be a great trip.

Kind regards Yvonne

And Ogie....I will take a look soon.

I wish you a very nice trip aswell Yvonne, dont get to "stoned"
Talk to you soon.

Kind regards
Peter (who did see some very nice yamadori)

Thanks for sharing, Yvonne. Thanks for helping your friend share on IBC's Stone Forum, Peter.

The stones are refreshing and different with close fitting daiza & nice stands.

The footed stand under the single black stone is exceptional. With its 8 sides, it can be used in display with a wide variety of differently shaped stands under other objects. Its style recalls Buddhist platforms for sitting/zazen as well as stone platforms for important buildings with edge carvings of repeated inset medallions (usually kouzama in style/contour).

First, THANKS Peter

Dear Chris

I am very pleased you like my daisas, I enjoy very much making them.
It is very difficult to find good stones in Denmark, and the brown and the black stone, are the only ones, I find really nice, from all sides.
I normaly display the black stone in a suiban, but used the stand this time, as I think the stone is nicly ballanced, and I wanted to show the elegant way it rests.

I bought the stand in Kyoto last year, and it cost me as much as the tip of a jetplane....It is very old, and is carved out of one piece of wood.
Thank you for telling me the story about tha shape, very nice to know.

Kind regards Yvonne

Hi Yvonne... Continue to share your own expression when displaying this stand. The quality of the footed table/stand is obvious-- with pierced windows, slightly worn/high-quality material, repetition of fine carving details and modesty in style & feeling. It appeals to thin, astringent (shibui) taste. I thought about 'openings through a low rail on the side of a boat,' too, with this stand; but that is more a personal feeling. The Buddhist platform/pedestal allusion is described as one of two great origins of traditional Chinese furniture in the book Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties by Shixiang Wang. You can "search inside" the book on-line using the term "Buddhist platform" to see if you think it fits.

Chris Cochrane wrote:Hi Yvonne... Continue to share your own expression when displaying this stand. The quality of the footed table/stand is obvious-- with pierced windows, slightly worn/high-quality material, repetition of fine carving details and modesty in style & feeling. It appeals to thin, astringent (shibui) taste. I thought about 'openings through a low rail on the side of a boat,' too, with this stand; but that is more a personal feeling. The Buddhist platform/pedestal allusion is described as one of two great origins of traditional Chinese furniture in the book Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties by Shixiang Wang. You can "search inside" the book on-line using the term "Buddhist platform" to see if you think it fits.

Hi Chris

I will certanly look up the " Buddist platform", as it is very interesting.

I really, really like the stand, and this is why I bouhgt it, even though it was far too expensive for me.

But I find it hard to use, as the stand demands attension.
I have some nice shohin, and stones, but the stand outshines...

The stand has a deep pollish, high quality old heavy wood, not worn at all, and no scratch is to be found, but is rich on patina, it do not appear as fragile at all, maybe it looks modest on the photo, but it is not. It came in its own wooden box, had no signature.
In Tokyo I saw a big "windswept" hutstone, I think this stone would have mached the stand, I still dream about it.
In my home I exhibit the stand without anything on it.
Kind regards Yvonne

The description you see is very accurate-- e.g., 'not worn' though the patina is aged. Showing a stand that displays well on its own without an object is elegant & practical.

Your Danish stones are very nice though it is difficult to make-out the detail of several in the tiered stand. The presentation is good, too.

I hope you will continue sharing objects connected to suiseki (or other stones) and your impressions of them.

Thanks for your answers Chris...maybe I should show the small stones one at the time, but it has to wait a little, as I go to China on the tour on monday, are you going too?

Kind regards Yvonne Yvonne

Hello Yvonne. Lovely display. Do you still make little felt daisa for your stones?