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. He then worked as an assistant to Constantin Brancusi in Paris and presented his first solo exhibition in New York. He studied brush drawing in China and worked with ceramics under Jinmatsu Uno in Japan.
His experiences living and working in different cultural circles are reflected in his work as an artist. Isamu Noguchi 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 to the West, through poetry. I wish to fulfill my heritage”, he wrote in his proposal for a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Isamu Noguchi died in New York in 1988.
ISAMU NOGUCHI
The Noguchi Dining Table by the artist and designer Isamu Noguchi is one the most elegant dining tables in the history of twentieth-century design. A variation on his Rocking Stool design, the table echoes its central pedestal base made of chrome plated rods. The rods connect to a cast iron base ring to securely support the table and provide stability, but without appearing heavy.
Sizes available Ø90cm and Ø121cm – H72,5cm
Materials Tabletop in plywood with white hard laminate surface, black-stained edge. Base in cast iron with black lacquer finish, chrome-plated steel wires.
