Live Auction 7532Double Vision
Shiro Kuramata (1934-1991)
Lot 23

Shiro Kuramata (1934-1991)

Acrylic Stool with Feathers

Closed14 October 2007

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GBP 67,700

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Shiro Kuramata (1934-1991)
Acrylic Stool with Feathers
acrylic, aluminium, dyed feathers
21 x 13 x 16¼in. (53.5 x 33 x 41.5cm.)
Designed in 1990, executed by Ishimaru Company Ltd., Tokyo, this work is number nineteen from an edition of forty

Paul Hughes Fine Arts, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

Specialist note

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Mieko Kuramata and dated 25 June 2003.





The Acrylic Stool With Feathers was originally conceived for Spiral, a Tokyo gallery and shopping complex. The stool offers a philosophic transcendance as the feathers captured in the block appear to float, weightlessly, creating an illusion as to the actual weight of the work.