Shiro Kuramata 

Shiro Kuramata is a Japanese designer, born the November 29th, 1934 in Tokyo, died on 1st February 1991.
He continues to Tokyo to study architecture and design at the School of Design Kuwazawa. In 1965, Kuramata founded his own design studio, design Kuramata Office. In the years 1970 and 1980, Kuramata worked as an interior architect and furnitur...

Shiro Kuramata is a Japanese designer, born the November 29th, 1934 in Tokyo, died on 1st February 1991.
He continues to Tokyo to study architecture and design at the School of Design Kuwazawa. In 1965, Kuramata founded his own design studio, design Kuramata Office. In the years 1970 and 1980, Kuramata worked as an interior architect and furniture designer.

Near Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata participates in Memphis Group for which he designed some furniture.

In 1988, Kuramata moved to Paris where he founded his design studio.

Recognized as one of the great designers of the twentieth century, his creations are now part of the great museums.

The style of Shiro Kuramata is done with humor and poetry allied to a search of lightness and minimalism.

His work on transparency and light makes a precursor: in 1969 he designed a light table acrylic, in 1976 he created Glass Chair, a chair made entirely of glass; in 1988 he designed the chair Miss Blanche essentially transparent plastic including rose petals (inspired blouse adorned with red roses Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire). The chair How High the Moon (1986) made of metallic mesh, shares the same quest for transparency and immateriality.

The working Kuramata is also strongly influenced by abstract contemporary artists such as Piet Mondrian (chair Glass Chair) and Donald Judd (chair Sedia Seduta).