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 Uchida Shigeru / portrait / 2008  previous next 
Born in Yokohama in 1943. Graduated at the Kuwasawa Design School. As a leading Japanese designer, Uchida has engaged in a wide range of design projects in interior design, furniture, products and urban planning in Japan and abroad. His major works are series of boutiques for Yohji Yamamoto, the Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka, the Kobe Fashion Museum, the tea rooms 'Ji-an, So-an, Gyo-an,' the Mojiko Hotel and Oriental Hotel Hiroshima. His works are held in permanent collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Conran Foundation and others. His publications include 'Bounds of Privacy,' 'Mojiko Hotel Aldo Rossi Shigeru Uchida,' 'Japanese Interior Design-Its Cultural Origin,' 'Book of Furniture', and 'Shigeru Uchida with Ikuyo Mitsuhashi'. Besides teaching at his alma mater since 1973, he is a Guest Professor at Tokyo Zokei University. Uchida received the Mainichi Design Award, Education Minister's Art Encouragement Award and others. In 2007, he was honored with Medal of Purple Ribbon.
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