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10 June 2022
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Shiro Kuramata

Furniture in Irregular Forms, Side 1

Cappellini
Japan / Italy, 1970 / 1981
lacquered oak, lacquered wood, aluminum, chrome-plated steel 67¼ h × 24 w × 20½ d in (171 × 61 × 52 cm)
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $6,000
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provenance: Private Collection
literature: The Work of Shiro Kuramata: 1967-1974, Kuramata, ppg. 45-47 Shiro Kuramata: 1967-1987, Isozaki, ppg. 17-18 Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, Hara et al., ppg. 45, 48, 130 Shiro Kuramata and Ettore Sottsass, 21_21 Design Sight exhibition catalog, ppg. 30, 169 Shiro Kuramata, Sudjic, ppg. 154, 255
An example of this design is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

This work will ship from Wright in Chicago, Illinois.

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My ideal is to see objects floating in the air with no support; my design is born and evolves out of these images. I am attracted to transparent materials because transparency does not belong to any special place but it exists and is everywere, nevertheless.

Shiro Kuramata

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