Kuramata Glass Chair, 1976
Mihoya Glass Co. Ltd, Japan

Designer
Shiro Kuramata

Material
Glass adhered with Photobond 100 adhesive

Dimensions
W 90 cm, H 86.3 cm, D 61 cm

Kuramata wanted to go beyond the limits of the material world; he tried to make things disappear, and repeatedly created 'borderline objects' at the critical point of transformation where as Ettore Sottsass just to say "material becomes light, weight becomes air". This chair strikes a last moment pose before dissolving its 'objectness'.

Shiro Kuramata took advantage of a recently-invented adhesive to create this tense, cool glass chair, which is perfectly functional despite its effect of unreliable fragility and weightlessness.