Coffee Table Isamu Noguchi 1944

19mm thick glass top etched with isamu noguchi s signature.
Coffee table isamu noguchi 1944. Coffee table model in 50 with its two part sculptural feet in black lacquered wood and glass manufactured by herman miller the model designed in 1944. Herman miller inc zeeland mi. Designed in 1944 the noguchi coffee table s organic base is carved from a choice of black ash or walnut supporting an elegantly shaped glass top. The heavy plate glass top of the coffee table rests on two identical wooden elements placed at right angles.
Presumably for this reason noguchi regarded the table as his best furniture design. Coffee table isamu noguchi 1944 in creating his design for the coffee table isamu noguchi translated the biomorphic aesthetic of his sculptural works into a piece of furniture with distinctive organic forms. 14 7 8 x 30 1 2 x 1 1 2 37 8 x 77 5 x 3 8 cm. Influenced by his mentor romanian sculptor constantin brancusi and by the abstract forms of jean arp and japanese zen gardens noguchi gained acclaim in 1946 when his biomorphic interlocking stone sculptures were included in 14 americans at the museum of modern art.
His iconic coffee table a soft cornered triangular glass top above curved asymmetrical wood supports fueled a successful partnership with the modernist design manufacturer herman miller. 15 5 8 x 50 1 4 x 35 7 8 39 7 x 127 6 x 91 1 cm component a. Isamu noguchi perhaps more than any other midcentury master isamu noguchi blurred the lines between public and personal between art and design. Birch glass aluminum dowel.
His career was defined by experimenting learning and creating. Buy vitra noguchi coffee table design isamu noguchi 1944 the sculptor and designer isamu noguchi himself described the coffee table as his best furniture design no doubt because it is reminiscent of his biomorphic sculptures in bronze and marble from the same period translating the typical forms of the latter into a piece of sculptural furniture. Coffee table model in 50. Isamu noguchi was one of the 20th century s most important and critically acclaimed sculptors and designers.
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