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electrical kit
30 €
Akari 15A
W88 x H33 cm
655 €
Akari 21A
W65 x H28 cm
250 €
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Akari 26A
W45 x H25 cm
155 €

> Noguchi electric set for pendant lamp

Materials washi paper, bamboo
Electric set sold separately.
Isamu Noguchi, born in 1904 in Los Angeles to the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and the American writer Leonie Gilmour, studied at Columbia University and the Leonardo da Vinci Art School.
 
He subsequently established his first independent studio and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927. Noguchi became an assistant to Constantin Brancusi in Paris and presented his first solo exhibition in New York. After studying brush drawing in China, he travelled to Japan to work with clay under the master potter Jinmatsu Uno.
 
His experiences living and working in different cultural circles are reflected in Isamu Noguchi's work as an artist. He is considered a universal talent with a creative oeuvre that went beyond sculpture to encompass stage sets, furniture, lighting, interiors as well as outdoor plazas and gardens. His sculptural style is indebted to a vocabulary of organic forms and exerted a sustained influence on the design of the 1950s.
 
'My Father, Yone Noguchi is Japanese and has long been known as an interpreter of the East and West, through poetry. I wish to do the same thing through sculpture', he wrote in his proposal for a Guggenheim Fellowship.
 
Isamu Noguchi died in New York in 1988.
Isamu Noguchi
The Akari 15A, 21A and 26A lamps have a slightly flattened sphere shape giving a very aerial and light impression. Their structure is made of bamboo stems that support sheets of white Washi paper. The light emitted is subtle and very diffused. Washi is a very strong and flexible paper, handcrafted since the 7th century in Japan, with the inner part of the mulberry paper tree.
 
The Akari 15A, 21A and 26A lamps, with their varied and complementary sizes, will find their place in a multitude of interior: private lounges, lofts, showrooms ... They can be suspended alone or in groups.

Isamu Noguchi

 

15A, 21A & 26A Akari lamps

 

design Isamu Noguchi, 1951

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