CDG8 chair #1 ‘Black Market’

1988
2019

Manufactured in Japan.

This re-edition produced was sold in 2019 during a “Black Market” pop-up for Comme des Garçons in Omotesando, Tokyo. It was sold out a few days after the release.

Designed by Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons in 1988.

 

Rei Kawakubo’s furniture designs were first made in 1984 “to create a complete environmental setting for [her] clothes” in the Comme des Garçons stores. Her first designs were chairs made of steel and granite, made as unique examples or in limited quantities. A small number of collections were created up until 1990, when a now very rare catalog of her furniture designs was released. Around 1987, when the present lot was produced, Kawakubo had opened up a short-lived Comme des Garçons furniture store in Paris that was later made into the brand’s perfume store.


Laquered steel tube and simili-leather.


CDG8 Chair #1 ‘Black Market’ by Rei Kawakubo – 1988/2019 Re-edition, iconic Japanese Design. 

Price on request
Ref code: SEA00028