Shiro Kuramata & Hiroshi Sugimoto: Works from the Absent Past 
15 January 2015
Shiro Kuramata, cabinet for Bub Yoshino - Image 1 of 3
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Shiro Kuramata & Hiroshi Sugimoto: Works from the Absent Past 
Shiro Kuramata, cabinet for Bub Yoshino - Image 1 of 3
Shiro Kuramata, cabinet for Bub Yoshino - Image 2 of 3
Shiro Kuramata, cabinet for Bub Yoshino - Image 3 of 3
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Shiro Kuramata

cabinet for Bub Yoshino

Japan, 1976
stainless steel, mirrored glass 55 h × 19¾ w × 23 d in (140 × 50 × 58 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $25,000
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This cabinet was utilized on the top floor of Bub Yoshino which housed a small, private room reserved for important clients. The cabinet features a mirrored glass side, one door concealing shelf, two drawers and a separate rolling a cabinet that pulls away from the large cabinet featuring two drawers and removable box. Sold with a photograph and negative of the cabinet in situ.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.

The private room of Bub Yoshino showing the cabinet in situ.

 

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