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12 December 2024
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Shiro Kuramata

How High the Moon armchair

Vitra
Japan / Switzerland, 1986 / 2000
epoxy-coated nickel-plated steel 28 h × 37½ w × 32¾ d in (71 × 95 × 83 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $18,900
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Foil manufacturer's label to underside ‘Vitra Delivery date 49.2000’.
provenance: Luminaire, Chicago | Acquired from the previous in 2004 by the present owner
literature: Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, Hara et al., ppg. 21, 56-57, 59, 177, 181 Shiro Kuramata, Sudjic, pg. 340
An example of this design is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

This work will ship from 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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