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Shiro KURAMATA
Shiro Kuramata, who died at the age of 57 in 1991, was the embodiment of new post-modern design in Japan. While the designer Issey Miyake entrusted him with the interior architecture of his boutiques (Japan, Paris), his design made a name for itself in Europe thanks to Ettore Sottsass, via the Memphis movement. This lover of forms that generate emptiness, transparency and dematerialisation has seen his pieces included in the Vitra and Cappellini catalogues. In particular, it is reissuing the most emblematic specimens in its series of drawer units (Side 1 and Side 2, Hommage à Mondrian, Revolving Cabinet and Solaris), which combine secrecy, poetry and symbolism. Most of his creations are classics of design and feature in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Moma in New York and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.