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year 1984
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info Kawakubo is the remarkable woman behind the success of Japan’s Comme des Garçons fashion empire. Without a formal training in fashion, she established the company and set about reducing clothes to their essentials, evolving (as she once put it) fashion for the present without any reference to the past. In 1984 she designed two pieces of furniture, initially for use in her own shops: a mesh chair, and a triangular table in two contrasting finishes. These have now been put into production by the Italian firm Pallucco, providing fresh evidence of the increasing importance of Japanese design.
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year 1984
material metal
info Kawakubo is the remarkable woman behind the success of Japan’s Comme des Garçons fashion empire. Without a formal training in fashion, she established the company and set about reducing clothes to their essentials, evolving (as she once put it) fashion for the present without any reference to the past. In 1984 she designed two pieces of furniture, initially for use in her own shops: a mesh chair, and a triangular table in two contrasting finishes. These have now been put into production by the Italian firm Pallucco, providing fresh evidence of the increasing importance of Japanese design.
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