Super Potato Design : The Complete Works of Takashi Sugimoto: Japan's Leading Interior Designer

by Locher, Mira

• ISBN13: 9780804837378
• ISBN10: 0804837376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-15
• Publisher: Tuttle Pub

Summary

"Super Potato Design is the first full-length book to present the built work and conceptual ideas of the internationally renowned Japanese design firm Super Potato, founded by Takashi Sugimoto. Super Potato's powerful designs for the interiors of restaurants, shops and hotels, as well as Takashi Sugimoto's designs for tea ceremony spaces and utensils, are richly complex compositions of materials which create simple, strong spaces. By finding contemporary expression for important concepts present in traditional Japan and combining materials in unexpected ways to create exciting spaces, Super Potato's work has had a significant impact on interior design in Japan and around the world."

Author Biography

Architect Takashi Sugimoto, born in Tokyo in 1945, studied metal sculpture before graduating from the Crafts Course of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968. He founded Super Potato in 1973 and became a professor at the Musashino University of Fine Arts in 1992. He received the Mainichi Design Award in 1985 and 1986, as well as the Interior Design Association Award in 1992.

Mira Locher was born in Pennsylvania and has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture & Planning at the University of Utah.

Table of Contents

Beyond Layered Discontinuity Foreword	p. 10
The Design Firm Super Potato	p. 14
Early Projects	p. 22
Strawberry	p. 24
Maruhachi	p. 26
Radio	p. 28
Pashu Labo	p. 32
Pashu	p. 36
Old-New	p. 38
Brasserie-EX	p. 42
Be-in	p. 48
Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama Talks with Takashi Sugimoto	p. 52
Series Projects	p. 58
Shunju Akasaka	p. 60
Shunju Tameike Sanno	p. 66
Kitchen Shunju	p. 74
Shunju Tsugihagi	p. 78
Shunsui	p. 86
Shunkan	p. 92
MUJI Aoyama	p. 100
MUJI Aoyama-sanchome	p. 104
The Future and MUJI	p. 108
Ryurei	p. 112
Komatori	p. 114
Tea Utensils	p. 116
Kenya Hara Talks with Takashi Sugimoto	p. 118
Recent Projects	p. 124
Niki Club	p. 126
Mezzag	p. 130
Brix	p. 138
Straits Kitchen	p. 142
Zipangu	p. 148
Cafe TOO	p. 156
Hibiki	p. 162
Zuma	p. 168
The Grand Chapel	p. 172
The Shinto Shrine	p. 174
Shunbou	p. 178
Roku Roku	p. 182
Nagomi	p. 184
Waketokuyama	p. 186
Roka and Shochu Lounge	p. 192
Sensi	p. 198
Lobby and Lounge	p. 202
Park Club	p. 208
Guest Rooms	p. 212
Cornerstone	p. 216
The Timber House	p. 220
Major Works 1971-2006	p. 226
Acknowledgments	p. 240
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