Fondazione Prada’s latest exhibition, ‘Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries’ (until 22 February 2024) examines the cultural and artistic role of the decorative folding screen, an ...

The elegant Chinese pingfeng (folding screen) is an ancient invention that is an essential part of traditional Chinese furniture. The earliest common use of the pingfeng dates back to the Han Dynasty ...

Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716) was the second son of a wealthy Kyoto merchant who ran a kimono fabric business called Kariganeya. The family was related to Hon’ami Kōetsu, who was a cultural figure active in ...

You don’t have to binge-watch classic movies to know that when a starlet wanted to “slip into something more comfortable,” she often stepped behind a decorative folding screen before shedding her ...

Room screens have been around practically forever. The Chinese began using them as far back as 200 B.C. The Japanese adopted them in the seventh century. Europeans embraced them in the 17th. Those ...

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