In 1970, Shiro Kuramata designed this bookcase, open on both sides and made of white-lacquered MDF panels, for Cappellini. The designer has created compartments of different sizes in an oversized square. This original design creates a graphic storage unit that makes a bold statement in a living room while being functional.
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.
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CAPPELLINI
In 1946, Enrico Cappellini opened a small workshop in Carugo, Lombardy, but it wasn't until 1960 that it began producing furniture. From 1977, Giulio Cappellini propelled the company to an unparalleled position on the international design scene. Giulio Cappellini is a talented and often pioneering discoverer with an insatiable curiosity, always on the lookout for new things. Cappellini produces refined, elegant, extravagant designer furniture: Italian know-how in action. Designer furniture made by the Cappellini brand always features that special something sure to transform your living space!Notable collaborations include Alessandro Mendini, Jasper Morrison and Tom Dixon.