'Miss Blanche' chair
Designer
Shiro Kuramata
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Ishimaru Co. Ltd
Origin
Japan
Year
1988 / 1991
Design Museum Section
Japanese Design Icons
Design in Acrylic | Lucite
Categories
Dining chairs, Side chairs
Designheroes ID
54550
Auction House
Phillips
Headquarter
New York, United States
Materials
Acrylic | lucite
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Design
Sale Location
New York, United States
'Miss Blanche' chair
Acrylic, synthetic roses, painted tubular aluminium.
designed 1988, executed 1991
Manufactured by Ishimaru Co., Japan.
91 x 63 x 60.5 cm (35 7/8 x 24 3/4 x 23 7/8 in)
Number 21 from the edition of 56. Together with a certificate of authenticity from Mieko Kuramata.
Literature
ko Tanaka, ed., Star piece: sketch of image by Shiro Kuramata, Tokyo, 1991, for sketches throughout
Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, exh. cat., Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1996, pp. 26-27, 39-40 fig. 1, p. 48,p. 187, fig. 8, p. 192 , fig. 4
Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, pp. 204-05, no. 87
Ettore Sottsass, An Exhibition Dedicated to Shiro Kuramata, Milan, 1996, pp. 53-56
Domus (Milan), no. 858, April 2003, p. 121
Jean-Louis Gaillemin, ed., Design Contre Design: Deux siècles de créations, exh. cat., Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris, 2007, p. 301
Glenn Adamson; Jane Pavitt, eds., Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, London, 2011, p. 152
Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, exh. cat., Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1996, pp. 26-27, 39-40 fig. 1, p. 48,p. 187, fig. 8, p. 192 , fig. 4
Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, pp. 204-05, no. 87
Ettore Sottsass, An Exhibition Dedicated to Shiro Kuramata, Milan, 1996, pp. 53-56
Domus (Milan), no. 858, April 2003, p. 121
Jean-Louis Gaillemin, ed., Design Contre Design: Deux siècles de créations, exh. cat., Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris, 2007, p. 301
Glenn Adamson; Jane Pavitt, eds., Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, London, 2011, p. 152
Provenance
Cappellini International Interiors, Milan
Private collection, Italy, 1991
Private collection, Italy, 1991
Object
'Miss Blanche' chair
Designer
Shiro Kuramata
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Ishimaru Co. Ltd
Origin
Japan
Year
1988 / 1991
Design Museum Section
Japanese Design Icons
Design in Acrylic | Lucite
Categories
Dining chairs, Side chairs
Designheroes ID
54550
Auction House
Phillips
Headquarter
New York, United States
Materials
Acrylic | lucite
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Design
Sale Location
New York, United States
