Shigeru Ban - The Architect London Monday, April 28, 2014 | Phillips

The Architect

Created by Lee F. Mindel, London Auction 29 April 2014 6pm

  • Provenance

    Phillips de Pury & Company, London, ‘Kyobai’, 3 April 2008, lot 276

  • Literature

    Sophie Lovell, Limited Edition: Prototypes, One-Offs and Design Art Furniture, Basel, 2009, illustrated p. 224

  • Catalogue Essay

    Japanese architect Shigeru Ban recently won the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize. In response to being the seventh Japanese Pritzker Laureate, Ban said, “Receiving this prize is a great honor, and with it, I must be careful. I must continue to listen to the people I work for, in my private residential commissions and in my disaster relief work. I see this prize as encouragement for me to keep doing what I am doing – not to change what I am doing, but to grow. “Responding to his architectural practise Ban states, “When I started working this way, almost thirty years ago, nobody was talking about the environment. But this way of working came naturally to me. I was always interested in low cost, local, reusable materials.”

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Shigeru Ban

'PTH-02 Paper Tea House'

2006
Paper tubes, Japanese paper, honeycomb cardboard.
200 x 538 x 260 cm (78 3/4 x 211 3/4 x 102 3/8 in.)
Manufactured by Shigeru Ban Architects Europe, France.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

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The Architect

Created by Lee F. Mindel, London Auction 29 April 2014 6pm