Few things, certainly not a Cellini sculpture or a courtesan's wily bon mot, could be transplanted from the 15th or 16th century into the jazzy precincts of Milan Furniture Week and fit right in. But this chair could. Quite remarkable.
Made of three simple, recurring elements. That's all.
The contemporary chair, by Shiro Kuramata, springs from a very different tradition of asceticism than that of European monasticism--though it presents a very similar sensibility. Wabi, Shibui (defined by James Mitchener as acerbic good taste) both denote traditional Japanese principles of serene restraint originating in the same voluntary poverty that gave rise to western monasticism.
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