Important Design

Shiro Kuramata

How High the Moon armchair

Live auction begins on:

November 14, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Shiro Kuramata

How High the Moon armchair

Designed in 1986

Nickel plated steel mesh

Edited by Vitra, Basel

With the editor's partial label

72 x 94 x 82 cm ; 28 ½ x 37 x 32 ¼ in.

Private collection, Europe

Ettore Sottsass, Una Mostra Dedicata a Shiro Kuramata, Domus, December 1996, p. 55

Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, exhibition catalogue, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1996, pp. 2-3, 21, 56-57, 177, 181

100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exhibition catalogue, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, p. 201

Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, exhibition catalogue, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, 13 October - 27 December 1998, p. 8-9

Charlotte et Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Köln, 2000, p. 575

Deyan Sudjic, Shiro Kuramata Essays & Writings, London, 2013, pp. 102, 114, 139, 140, 340

Deyan Sudjic, Shiro Kuramata : Catalogue of Works, London, 2013, p. 340 et 346

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