Vitra - Coffee Table

 

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Noguchi himself described Coffee Table as his best furniture design, no doubt because it is extremely reminiscent of his bronze and marble sculptures of the time, translating the latter's biomorphic formal language unadulterated into a piece of sculptural furniture: glass tabletop resting on two identical wooden elements placed at right angles.

Collection Vitra Design Museum, © The Isamu Noguchi Foundation.

Also available in maple.

Details to Vitra - Coffee Table

• Design: Isamu Noguchi, 1944
• Material: Varnished solid wood base, 19 mm glass top with rounded edges.
• Measurements: 400 × 1280 × 930 mm
• Versions: black ash, walnut, maple

Design: Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles, the illegitimate son of Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet who had gained great acclaim in the United States, and Leonie Gilmour, an American writer who edited much of his work. He studied at the Columbia Universität and Designer Isamu Noguchi