Pair of 'How High the Moon' armchairs
Designer
Shiro Kuramata
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Idée
Vitra
Origin
Japan
Year
1986 / circa 1990s
Design Museum Section
Japanese Design Icons
Categories
Armchairs, Lounge chairs
Designheroes ID
69202
Auction House
Christie's
Headquarter
London, United Kingdom
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Masterpieces of Design & Photography
Sale Location
London, United Kingdom
Pair of 'How High the Moon' armchairs
Nickel-plated expanded steel mesh
designed 1986, these examples executed circa 1990s
retailed in Japan by IDEE and in Europe by Vitra
38½ high x 37 ¼ wide x 32 in. deep (72.4 x 94.5 x 81 cm.)
Exhibited
Examples of Shiro Kuramata's 'How High the Moon' manufactured by Vitra are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Vitra Design Museum, Weil-am Rhein, Germany, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York.
Literature
Shiro Kuramata 1967-1987, Tokyo 1988, cover and pp. 98-99, 101.
Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, exh. cat., Tokyo, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000, pl. 15, unpaged.
D. Sudjic, Shiro Kuramata, Essays & Writings, vol. 1, London 2013, p. 102 for a drawing, p. 103, 114, 139, 140 (a drawing illustrated).
D. Sudjic, Shiro Kuramata, Catalogue of Works, vol. 2, London 2013, p. 340, no. 445, p. 346.
Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, exh. cat., Tokyo, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000, pl. 15, unpaged.
D. Sudjic, Shiro Kuramata, Essays & Writings, vol. 1, London 2013, p. 102 for a drawing, p. 103, 114, 139, 140 (a drawing illustrated).
D. Sudjic, Shiro Kuramata, Catalogue of Works, vol. 2, London 2013, p. 340, no. 445, p. 346.
Provenance
Private Collection, Europe.
Object
Pair of 'How High the Moon' armchairs
Designer
Shiro Kuramata
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Idée
Vitra
Origin
Japan
Year
1986 / circa 1990s
Design Museum Section
Japanese Design Icons
Categories
Armchairs, Lounge chairs
Designheroes ID
69202
Auction House
Christie's
Headquarter
London, United Kingdom
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Masterpieces of Design & Photography
Sale Location
London, United Kingdom
