Miss Blanche

Kuramata's work is characterised by the use of unusual materials, dream inspired forms and altered perception of space. This chair which pays homage to the title figure in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, is perhaps the artist's most poetic design. The hand placed imitation roses are the essence of love, captured and frozen in time. The visual lightness of the design is highly deceptive. The distinctive "nonexistent" quality of the acrylic frame gives the piece an ethereal essence of floating free from gravity.
The present example was among the first examples made, and Mr. Kuramata himself held the artificial flowers in place with tweezers while the acrylic was cast into its mold.