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Super Potato Design
Mira Locher
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Description for Super Potato Design
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: AKB; AMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1372.
Super Potato Design is the first full-length book to present the work and conceptual ideas of the internationally renowned Japanese design firm Super Potato, founded by Takashi Sugimoto. Super Potato's compelling designs for the interiors of restaurants, shops and hotels, as well as Takashi Sugimoto's designs for tea ceremony spaces and utensils, are richly complex compositions of materials which create simple, strong spaces. Using traditional Japanese building materials such as bamboo, wood, and stone, but creating original yet timeless spaces, Super Potato's designs avoid specific stylistic characterizations and short-lived fashion. By finding ... Read more
Super Potato Design is the first full-length book to present the work and conceptual ideas of the internationally renowned Japanese design firm Super Potato, founded by Takashi Sugimoto. Super Potato's compelling designs for the interiors of restaurants, shops and hotels, as well as Takashi Sugimoto's designs for tea ceremony spaces and utensils, are richly complex compositions of materials which create simple, strong spaces. Using traditional Japanese building materials such as bamboo, wood, and stone, but creating original yet timeless spaces, Super Potato's designs avoid specific stylistic characterizations and short-lived fashion. By finding ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
1190g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Boston, United States
ISBN
9780804837378
SKU
V9780804837378
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99-15
About Mira Locher
Architect Takashi Sugimoto, born in Tokyo in 1945, studied metal sculpture before graduating from the Crafts Course of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968. He founded Super Potato in 1973 and became a professor at the Musashino University of Fine Arts in 1992. He received the Mainichi Design Award in 1985 ... Read more
Reviews for Super Potato Design
We do not live only with clear-cut forms; rather, we exist in a world of forms that are often indistinct and vague. -Takashi Sugimoto, architect and James Beard Award-winning author