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Umeda Masanori 梅田正德
Model, Mobile Supply System (Kitchen) 移動式供應系統（廚房）模型
designed 1968, made 2002
One of Umeda Masanori’s earliest designs, the Mobile Supply System won the prestigious Braun Prize in 1968. At the time, the housing crises of the post–Second World War years, combined with radically changing lifestyles, had prompted widespread interest among many designers in prefabricated ‘plug-in architecture’ that was modular, mobile, flexible, and inexpensive. Conceived shortly after Umeda joined the studio of the prominent Italian designers Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni in Milan, his response comprises three separate units serving many of the functions of a typical dwelling: a kitchen, a bathroom, and an entertainment system. The box-like units, which unfold to reveal their contents, sport the rounded corners and white, sanitary finishes of space-age design and could be easily reconfigured, though they were never realised at full scale.
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