Roses

Created for KAGU Tokyo Designer’s Week ’88, Kuramata’s sublime chair Miss Blanche, one of his best-known works, was inspired by the corsage worn by Vivien Leigh in the role of Blanche Dubois in the movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire. To create this seat, Kuramata gathered various kinds of artificial flowers from all over Japan and made models over and over until he achieved the illusion that the flowers were floating in space. During the final stage of production, the acrylic was laid in its mold and the roses were held in place with tweezers.  Kuramata reportedly telephoned the factory staff every thirty minutes to say: “Make sure they float.”return