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S-406
year 1980s
material metal
source title The International Design Yearbook 4
info Kazuo Shinohara, a contemporary of Arata Isozaki, has exercised great influence in turning the tide away from the “megastructural” viewpoint of the 1960s generation of Japanese architects. Sawaya & Moroni have now launched the Shinohara steel collection, which includes the Straw Chair. Struts of steel as slender as straws are assembled to combine a slim, three-barred back with a wider base. Its deceptively simple geometry is contradicted by the light that is filtered on a horizontal plane throughout its form.
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year 1980s
material metal
source title The International Design Yearbook 4
info Kazuo Shinohara, a contemporary of Arata Isozaki, has exercised great influence in turning the tide away from the “megastructural” viewpoint of the 1960s generation of Japanese architects. Sawaya & Moroni have now launched the Shinohara steel collection, which includes the Straw Chair. Struts of steel as slender as straws are assembled to combine a slim, three-barred back with a wider base. Its deceptively simple geometry is contradicted by the light that is filtered on a horizontal plane throughout its form.
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