‘Goblet of Light’ by Tokyo’s design genius, the Late Shiro Kuramata

Japanese portable-lighting brand Ambientec launches a reissue of the “glass of light” created by the Tokyo design genius, Shiro Kuramata to mark 30 years of his untimely death... So the story goes thus: Shiro Kuramata was one of the most important designers of the 20th century, whose work was strongly influenced by surrealism and contemporary art, and full of a free-spirited playfulness, once in 1988, surprised guests (including Ron Arad and Zaha Hadid, both still unknown) by putting a bright red light in his glass of champagne. A playful gesture, but far from a simple joke: what Kuramata wanted to […]