Shiro Kuramata & Hiroshi Sugimoto: Works from the Absent Past 
15 January 2015
Shiro Kuramata & Hiroshi Sugimoto: Works from the Absent Past 
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Shiro Kuramata

vitrine for Bub Yoshino

Japan, 1976
lacquered wood, glass 68¾ h × 48 w × 12¾ d in (175 × 122 × 32 cm)
estimate: $20,000–30,000
result: $25,000
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Sold with a photograph of the vitrine in situ and original logo decal. This work is unique.
provenance: Bub Yoshino, Tokyo | Private collection
literature: Shiro Kuramata, Sudjic, pg. 296 discusses commission Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, Hara et al., pg. 148 lists commission

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Bub Yoshino, Tokyo

In 1976 Kuramata designed the interior of Bub Yoshino beauty salon which occupied the third and fourth floors of a building in the popular Tokyo neighborhood, Minami-Aoyama. The area on the third floor housed several salon stations and a spiral staircase leading to a private room on the fourth floor.

Interior of the private room on the fourth floor Bub Yoshino.

 

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