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isamu noguchi: furniture .......................................................................................................................................................................................................
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| isamu noguchi was known for his sensitive use of materials. noguchi often used wood in his furniture designs, to make biomorphic sculptures related to surrealism. --- noguchi on sculpture: 'new concepts of the physical world and of psychology may give insights into knowledge, but the visible world, in human terms, is more than scientific truths. it enters our consciousness as emotion as well as knowledge; trees grow in vigor, flowers hang evanescent, and mountains lie somnolent -- with meaning. the promise of sculpture is to project these inner presences into forms that can be recognized as important and meaningful in themselves. our heritage is now the world. art for the first time may be said to have a world consciousness.' --- noguchi on the noguchi coffee table: 'my first industrial design was, I suppose, some Italian sugar cake molds that I did when I was twenty. then there was 'measured time', a clock, and in 1937 the 'radio nurse'. there was the time I went to hawaii in 1939 to do an advertisement (with georgia o'keefe). as a result of this I had met robsjohn gibbings, the furniture designer, who had asked me to do a coffee table for him. ( I had already done a table for conger goodyear). I designed a small model in plastic and heard no further before I went west. while interned in poston I was surprised to see a variation of this published as a gibbings advertisement. when, on my return I remonstrated, he said anybody could make a three-legged table. in revenge, I made my own variant of my own table, articulated as the goodyear table, but reduced to rudiments. it illustrated an article by george nelson called how to make a table. ' noguchi's furniture available --- http://www.hermanmiller.com http://www.knoll.com http://www.vitra.com --- / see noguchi's exhibition  / see noguchi's biography  / see the akari lights  --- ---  ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------  |
 coffee table, 1944 manufacturer herman miller  couch, 1948, manufacturer herman miller  rocking stools, 1955 manufacturer knoll |
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