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Obsession for the Square

Kuramata’s playful deconstruction and transformation of standard furniture types is already evident in his earliest works, produced from the mid-1960s to 1970. In Furniture in Irregular Forms Side 2, one of Kuramata’s best-known works and certainly the most copied, undulating curves endow a tall dresser with life. Breaking out of rigid geometry, it seems to dance on coasters that, replacing the usual feet, both suggest and literally incorporate movement and versatility.

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Furniture with Drawers Vol. 2, 1970
Made by Aoshima Shoten Co. Ltd.
Lacquered wood