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SHIRO KURAMATA

7/31/2014

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Kuramata's designs reflect the confidence and creativity 
of postwar japan, retaining a strong identity based on 
traditional japanese aesthetics while breaking new ground
through the use of innovative materials. he combined the
Japanese concept of the unity of the arts with his fascination 
with contemporary western culture, inventing a new design 
vocabulary: : the ephemeral, the sensation of floating and 
release from gravity, transparency and the construction of light.
Kuramata reassessed the relationship between form and function, 
imposing his own vision of the surreal and of minimalist ideals 
on everyday objects.

Born 1934 in Tokyo between the wars, the son of an administrator 
who became vice-director of a scientific institute, Kuramata was 
raised in Japan. He received a traditional training in the woodcraft 
department at Tokyo's Polytechnic High School, and then went on 
to work in a furniture factory, the 'teikoku kizai company' (1953). 
he pursued his studies in interior design at the 'Kuwasawa Design 
School' in Tokyo (1956) -institute that taught western concepts of 
interior design- the he was hired by the small department store 
'San-ai' as a designer of showcases as well as floor and window 
displays (1957). after a brief stint as a freelance designer for the 
retail giant 'Matsuya department store' (1964) the following year 
he opened his own design office in Tokyo (1965).

During the 1970s and 80s, Kuramata, alert to the revolutionary 
possibilities of new technologies and industrial materials, 
seized upon acrylic, glass, aluminum, and steel mesh to create 
objects that appear to break free of gravity into airy realms of 
transparency and lightness. 

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