England, Australia. Born 1963
Modernist industrial design-furniture, vehicles, interiors, teaching
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1934 - 1991. Known for: Modernist, whimsical design furniture, fashion design boutiques.
Born in Japan in 1931, Shiro Kuramata founded the Kuramata Design office in Tokyo in 1965. Working closely with the Memphis group movement and designing vitrines for Issey Miyake in Paris, New York... Read full biography
Born in Japan in 1931, Shiro Kuramata founded the Kuramata Design office in Tokyo in 1965. Working closely with the Memphis group movement and designing vitrines for Issey Miyake in Paris, New York and Tokyo, he is considered one of the greatest design references of the 20th century. As Ettore... Read full biography
Born in Japan in 1931, Shiro Kuramata founded the Kuramata Design office in Tokyo in 1965. Working closely with the Memphis group movement and designing vitrines for Issey Miyake in Paris, New York and Tokyo, he is considered one of the greatest design references of the 20th century. As Ettore Sottsass writes himself, his pieces are in “a permanent state of suspense”, describing the artist`s talent for choreographing motion and dreamy weightlessness into unique and very poetic compositions.... Read full biography
Born in Japan in 1931, Shiro Kuramata founded the Kuramata Design office in Tokyo in 1965. Working closely with the Memphis group movement and designing vitrines for Issey Miyake in Paris, New York and Tokyo, he is considered one of the greatest design references of the 20th century. As Ettore Sottsass writes himself, his pieces are in “a permanent state of suspense”, describing the artist`s talent for choreographing motion and dreamy weightlessness into unique and very poetic compositions. Exhibited in MoMA, his work is imbued with a singular perspective of the West`s century old fascination for Japanese Decorative Arts. He was given the Knighthood of Arts and Literature in France in 1990. Creations such as Glass chair of 1968 and Miss... Read full biography
Born in Japan in 1931, Shiro Kuramata founded the Kuramata Design office in Tokyo in 1965. Working closely with the Memphis group movement and designing vitrines for Issey Miyake in Paris, New York and Tokyo, he is considered one of the greatest design references of the 20th century. As Ettore Sottsass writes himself, his pieces are in “a permanent state of suspense”, describing the artist`s talent for choreographing motion and dreamy weightlessness into unique and very poetic compositions. Exhibited in MoMA, his work is imbued with a singular perspective of the West`s century old fascination for Japanese Decorative Arts. He was given the Knighthood of Arts and Literature in France in 1990. Creations such as Glass chair of 1968 and Miss Blanche of 1988, make use of acrylic and glass to their most noble and absolute extent in terms of structure, lighting and colour, all in the art... Read full biography
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New York / United Kingdom, Ireland. 1950 - 2016
Sculpture, avant-garde, unprecedented architectural design
Italy, Austria. 1917 - 2007
Avant-garde furniture design, ceramics, jewelry, handcrafted glass
Israel, United Kingdom, Israel. Born 1951
Innovative industrial design, sculptural furniture, and experimental architectural forms
Italy. Born 1938
Installations
New York / Austria. 1947 - 2012
Large-scale and whimsical sculpture, installation, painting
Italy. 1891 - 1979
Architecture, furniture design, sculpture, ceramics
Germany. 1941 - 2010
Pop art painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography
Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts / United Kingdom. 1931 - 1987
Mixed-metal modernist sculpture, furniture design
Pennsylvania, Washington / Japan, India. 1905 - 1990
Architecture, furniture design, sculpture
New York, Kansas. 1932 - 2018
Sculpture, modernist furniture design
Germany. Born 1932
Non-objective, photo painting
California, Oregon. 1908 - 1997
Sculptor-abstract, mod figure
Sculpture, painting
California / Italy. Born 1961
Architecture, glass art, ceramics, furniture and lighting design
New York, California / Japan. 1904 - 1988
Abstract sculpture, mod mediums
Japan. 1924 - 2008
Avant-garde painting
Italy. 1939 - 2024
Resin, plastic and bronze sculpture, glass art, brightly colored furniture
New York, California / France, Italy. 1928 - 2005
Happenings, assemblage, abstraction
New York, California. Born 1957
Post-surreal, grotesque figure and portrait painting
New York, Connecticut. 1956 - 2022
Modern figure painting; cartoonish collages
France. 1921 - 1998
Nouveau realist sculpture-automobiles
California. 1924 - 2002
Sculptor-ceramic, abstraction
England, United States. Born 1965
Conceptual life and death themed installations
New York / Israel, France. Born 1928
Religious and environmental themed sculpture, kinetic and optical art, teaching
Netherlands, Sweden, France, Belgium. 1922 - 2010
Mixed-media abstraction, sculpture
Michigan, California, Pennsylvania / Italy. 1915 - 1978
Sculpture-kinetic, abstract monoprint, painting, design
New York / France, Italy, Switzerland. 1921 - 2006
Fantasy animal painting, abstraction
Nebraska, California. Born 1937
Pop-word modeling illusions
California, New York / France. 1930 - 2002
"nana" female figure sculptures, paintings, assemblages
New York / Belgium, France, Monaco. 1934 - 2005
Magazine illustrator, cartoonist, painter, sculptor, set designer
District Of Columbia, Kentucky. 1933 - 2022
Abstract color field and drape painting, collage, graphics