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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 was... Read more one as one of the twentieth century’s most important and critically acclaimed sculptors.
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 fulfil my heritage”, he wrote in his proposal for a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Isamu Noguchi died in New York in 1988.
Read more"The light of Akari 5X is like the light of the sun filtered through the paper of shoji". (Isamu Noguchi).
Akari 20N Table Lamp light sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, 1951. Dimensions: 630 x 420 x 420mm.
Noguchi Dining Table is one of the most elegant dining tables designed in the 20th century.
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