DESIGNER
Shiro Kuramata
Shiro Kuramata graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Tokyo in 1953, and then started working at the furniture company Teikokukiza. Until 1956, Kuramata studied Interior Design at the Kuwasawa Design Institute in Tokyo. In 1965, he founded his own studio. As an interior designer, he designed furniture and more than three hundred bars and restaurants.
Kuramata’s approach to furniture and interior design revolutionized post-war Japanese design. He reassessed the relationship between form and function, imposing his surreal and minimalist vision on everyday objects. His works are part of the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Basel, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.
