CHAISE BERMUDA / CARLOS MIRET Ethne Clarke Pushing the fusion of the

Pushing the fusion of the beautiful and the ugly to the limit

elle devait se soumettre à une ultime transformation : la démolition "

This plurality of pasts assimilated into new constructions is a recurring feature of the country’s Brutalist buildings

Zoë Ghertner

Beginning in 1948 with the introduction of its first sports car

CHAISE BERMUDA / CARLOS MIRET Ethne Clarke Pushing the fusion of theBorn in Tokyo in 1934, Shiro Kuramata attended Tokyo Polytechnic high school, where he studied woodworking before graduating in 1953. He then went on to study interior design at Tokyo's Kuwazawa Institute for Design, where he continued his studies until 1956. In 1957, Kuramata began working for a Tokyo department store called San Ai, where he designed window displays. He then worked briefly as a freelance designer for the largest retail company,