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Shiro Kuramata (Japanese, 1934-1991) for Cappellini, Furniture in Irregular Forms, Side 1, designed 1970, black stained ash and white laminate, numbered 55 from an unknown edition, with certificate of authenticity dated 29 September 1988 170.5cm high 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 Footnote: Described as a ‘poet of material and form’, Shiro Kuramata is internationally regarded as one of the most influential and innovative Japanese designers of the 20th century. Born in Tokyo in 1934, Kuramata graduated from Tokyo Technical College before training as a cabinet maker at the Kuwasawa Institute of Design in Tokyo. By 1965, Kuramata had established his own design studio, Kuramata Design Office, where he worked alongside leading Japanese creative figures such as Jiro Takamatsu and Tadao Ando. In 1981, Kuramata was invited by the pioneering Italian designer and architect, Ettore Sottsass, to be a founding member of the Memphis Group. Combining traditional Japanese aesthetic principles, with distorted and subverted tropes of Western design, Kuramata’s playful and neoteric designs elevate objects of the everyday, creating unexpected and often humorous forms.