Masanori umeda biography template

  • The Japanese designer Masanori Umeda attended the Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo until 1962.
  • The Japanese designer Masanori Umeda took his diploma in design at the Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo in 1962.
  • Born in Kanagawa, Tokyo, Japan in 1941, Masanori Umeda graduated from Tokyo's Kuwasawa School of Design in 1962.

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    Masanori Umeda for Edra, Armchair “Early”, 1990s

    Masanori Umeda, signed. 
    Edra, edited by. 

    Armchair “Fleur dem Lys”. Conical seat bottom covered with red velvet with petiolate cushions, resting at the back on a chrome-plated metall sphere surrounded by blue fabric and two spheres at the front.

    Japanese and italian work realized in the 1990s. First edition.

    Dimensions : H 90 x W 99 x D 87 cm

    Reference : LS47792001

    Masanori Umeda (1941-) is a Japanese designer. He graduated from the Kuwasawa School of Design in 1962. In the late 1960s, he worked in the studio of Achilles and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni. Then, in the 1970s, he worked for the Italian publisher Olivetti. It was there that he met Ettore Sottsass. In the 1980s, he participated with him in the Memphis movement, close to the ideas of Antidesign. Author of numerous postmodern, poetic and ironic pieces of furniture, Masanori Umeda draws his inspiration in particular from his garden, where many v

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    UMEDA MASANORI (Né en 1941)

    Ring de boxe « Tawaraya »
    Création en 1981
    Edition Memphis
    Bois, plastique, métal, tatami, textile et ampoules
    H: 195cm.(76 3/4in.); L: 280cm.(110 1/4in.); P: 280cm.(110 1/4in.)(démontable).

    A « Tawaraya » boxing ring by Umeda Masanori in wood, plastic, metal, tatami, textile and bulbs designed in 1981, edited by Memphis.

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    21 September 2023, 14:00 CEST

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    UMEDA MASANORI (Né en 1941)

    Ring de boxe « Tawaraya »
    Création en 1981
    Edition Memphis
    Bois, plastique, métal, tatami, textile et ampoules
    H: 195cm.(76 3/4in.); L: 280cm.(110 1/4in.); P: 280cm.(110 1/4in.)(démontable).

    A « Tawaraya » boxing ring

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    Masanori Umeda
    Biography

    The Japanese designer Masanori Umeda attended the Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo until 1962. Between 1967 and 1969, Masanori Umeda was employed in the Milan design practice of Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni. From 1970 until 1979, Masanori Umeda was a design consultant for Olivetti, where he met Ettore Sottsass. In 1981 Ettore Sottsass invited Masanori Umeda to participate in the Memphis exhibition that year at the Milan gallery Arc '74. In 1981 Masanori Umeda designed "Tawaraya", his signature seat furniture in the form of a boxing ring, in which the founding members of Memphis had their photograph taken. In 1982 Masanori Umeda also designed the "Ginza" shelving system in the form of a robot for Memphis. Masanori Umeda also designed ceramic objects, including "Orinoco" (1983), a vase, and and the "Parana" bowl (1983). In 1986 Masanori Umeda returned to Japan zurück and opened U-Meta Design, his practice in Tokyo. Masanori Umeda continued to

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