Resultado de búsqueda
A design icon, Shiro Kuramata was the Japanese designer who best epitomized the spirit of the era in which he lived, through his highly significant products and creations. In 1965, he founded the Kuramata Design Office in Tokyo, where he remained until the year of his death, in 1991, working on numerous projects that entered the product and Design hall of fame.
These two chairs, designed twelve years apart, display Kuramata’s explorations of transparency in different materials—the first is made of glass, and the second, acrylic. With its sleek, refined lines, the glass-made Armchair was inspired by the futuristic atmosphere of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Miss Blanche Chair similarly draws on an American cultural ...
23 de feb. de 2018 · Shiro Kuramata, Boutique Miyake Seibu Store, Tokyo (Domus 689, January 1987) Shiro Kuramata seems to have anticipated our new digital world, imagining a future far from the grey steel that science fiction and society have always envisaged, restoring lightness and substance to a present with a total absence of gravity, above all ideological ...
Shiro Kuramata (Japanese, 1934–1991) 1986. Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met The Met's engagement with art from 1890 to today includes the acquisition and exhibition of works in a range of media, spanning movements in modernism to contemporary practices from across the globe. ...
1 de feb. de 2023 · Shiro Kuramata, a pioneering designer of postwar Japan, between 1960s and 1990s, was known for creating new instances of harmony in design by utilising the tension between material and form. At the core of his practice, as a furniture and interior designer, was the interplay of form and function, where he challenged the normalcy of design for domestic spaces and interiors, by bringing out ...
Drawn to the unusual, the sensual, and the ephemeral, Shiro Kuramata spent much of his career reassessing the relationship between form and function in furniture design. In his designs for tables, chairs, and lamps, Kuramata imposed his own versions of surreal and minimalist idioms on everyday objects. Kuramata earned degrees in architecture and interior design […]
During the 1970s and 1980s, Kuramata began to use new technologies and industrial materials. He was inspired by Ettore Sottsass and joined his design collective Memphis at its founding in 1981. The Kyoto Table is an example of his innovative use of concrete and glass to create a minimalist form with surface interest.
