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SHIRO KURAMATA, "How High the Moon" sofa, 1986

How High the Moon" sofa, 1986

Nickel-plated steel mesh, nickel-plated steel. 27 1/2 x 58 7/8 x 32 1/4 in. (70 x 149.5 x 82 cm.). Manufactured by Ishimaru Co. Ltd., for Idée, Japan. Number three from the edition of 30.

LITERATURE Kathryn B. Hiesinger and Felice Fischer, Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950, Philadelphia and New York, 1995, p. 163, no. 186 for an example of the chair; Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, exh. cat., Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1996, pp. 56-57, fig. 15 and p. 181, fig. 7 for examples of the chair

"The darkest night would shine / If you would come to me soon / Until you will, how still my heart / How high the moon…" A durable jazz standard, "How High the Moon" was first performed on Broadway in the 1940 revue Two for the Show. In subsequent years, it was recorded by a pantheon of jazz greats including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman.

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