Akari 2P
W28 x H75 cm
135 €
Akari 1P
W26 x H47 cm
110 €
Materials washi paper, bamboo
Electric set included.
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 1P and 2P Akari lamps are part of the large and famous collection Light Sculpture, designed by Isamu Noguchi in 1951. The 1P Akari lamp, by its small size, will be perfect for use as a table lamp. The 2P Akari lamp, higher, can be placed directly on the floor, near a sofa, an armchair or a bed, but also on a table or a dresser. Both looking like lanterns, they have 3 black metal legs and a lampshade made of Washi paper, a traditional Japanese paper, of high quality and very resistant.
