Design 
13 December 2023
Design 
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Shiro Kuramata

How High the Moon armchair

Vitra
Japan / Switzerland, 1986
nickel-plated steel 28¼ h × 37½ w × 32¾ d in (72 × 95 × 83 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $9,450
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provenance: Christie's New York, Important Contemporary International Design, 11 December 1992, Lot 38 | Collection of Robert and Lisa Kessler
literature: Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, Hara et al., ppg. 21, 56-57, 59, 177, 181 Shiro Kuramata, Sudjic, pg. 340

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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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