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do you remember the japanese designer shiro kuramata? he took part of sottsass' memphis collective...........................................................................
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 'laputa' bed, 1991 is surrounded by various 'ephemera' vases, 1989 by shiro kuramata in the tinted aluminum 'laputa', named for the fantastic island in jonathan swift’s 'gulliver’s travels', he reconfigures the double bed for two sleepers lying head-to-head or toe-to-toe, enforcing physical separation between the absent lovers’ bodies. the bed’s uncanny deformation, heightened in the silk coverings printed in a disturbingly faux version of kuramata’s star terrazzo, evokes its function as the site of dreams, memories, and nightmares as well as the locus of the life cycle: of suffering, of rest, of birth, sex, and death. created in homage to the ancient japanese tradition of flower arranging, ephemera, a set of elegant vases in acrylic and aluminum, each holding one flower, plays a poetic variation on the themes of elongation, solitude, and organic process - back - --- ---  ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------  |
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