In 1970, Shiro Kuramata designed a collection of chests of drawers of different shapes. The frame is made of black-stained ash and the 49 asymmetrical drawers are in white lacquered fibreboard panels. Each drawer is equipped with a brushed-steel knob. Mounted on casters, these Progetti Compiuti pieces make a statement in a room with their sculptural profiles. These pieces of furniture produced by Cappellini are extremely beautiful in either the bedroom or the living room.
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.