SHIRO KURAMATA, Unique table, from the Tachibana re

Unique table, from the Tachibana restaurant, Shinagawa, Tokyo, 1991. Acrylic. 40 1/2 × 157 1/2 × 23 5/8 in. (103 × 400 × 60 cm.). Together with a certificate of authenticity from Mieko Kuramata.

PROVENANCE Tachibana restaurant, Shinagawa, Tokyo
LITERATURE Japanese Restaurants & Taverns: 51 Outstanding Japanese Specialty Dish Restaurants& Taverns, Volume III, Japan, 1996, front cover and pp. 176–180; Shiro Kuramata 1934–1991, exh. cat., Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1996, p. 198 for a mention of the commission

Tachibana is a Japanese variety of sweet wild orange. Phillips de Pury & Company wish to thank Mieko Kuramata in cataloguing this lot.