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Property from a Distinguished Private Collector, New York

Shiro Kuramata

Set of Four "Sing Sing Sing" Armchairs

Lot Closed

October 20, 06:11 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collector, New York

Shiro Kuramata

Set of Four "Sing, Sing, Sing" Armchairs


designed 1985

manufactured by XO, France

chrome-plated tubular steel, steel mesh, leather upholstery

each impressed XO

34 x 20 3/4 x 30 in. (86.4 x 52.7 x 76.2 cm) each

Arata Isozaki and Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata 1967-1987, Tokyo, 1988, p. 97

Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, exh. cat., Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1996, pp. 20-21, 50 and 175-176

Ettore Sottsass, "Una Mostra Dedicata a Shiro Kuramata," Domus, December 1996, p. 55

Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Cologne, 2000, p. 574

Jerryll Habegger and Joseph H. Osman, Sourcebook of Modern Furniture, New York, 2005, p. 217

Deyan Sudjic, Shiro Kuramata Essays & Writings, London, 2013, pp. 140 (for a drawing of the model) and 335