Super Potato Design, 9780804837378
Hardcover
Unexpected materials, simple spaces: Super Potato’s revolutionary Japanese designs revealed.

Super Potato Design

The Complete Works of Takashi Sugimoto: Japan's Leading Interior Designer

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  • Hardcover

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    15 November 2006

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Summary

This is the first full-length book to present the built work and conceptual ideas of the internationally renowned Japanese design firm Super Potato, founded by Takashi Sugimoto. Super Potato’s powerful 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. By finding contemporary expression for important concepts present in tradition…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780804837378
ISBN-10:0804837376
Author:Mira Locher, Tadao Ando, Yoshio Shiratori
Publisher:Tuttle Publishing
Imprint:Tuttle Publishing
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:15 November 2006
Weight:1.42kg
Dimensions:254mm x 229mm x 262mm
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Critics Review

“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

“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

About The Author

Mira Locher

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 and 1986, as well as the Interior Design Association Award in 1992.

Mira Locher is an architect and professor who works in the U.S. and Japan. She studied at Smith College before receiving her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After working for Team Zoo Atelier Mobile in Japan for seven years, she set up an architectural practice in the U.S. with Takayuki Murakami. Mira Locher is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba (Canada). She is the author of Super Potato Design, Zen Gardens and Zen Garden Design.

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