Featuring a glass tabletop and solid wooden base in a variety of finishes, the Noguchi Coffee Table stands as one of the most recognisable furniture designs of the 20th Century. A popular favourite ever since its introduction in 1947, the coffee table serves as the perfect example of the Japanese-American designer's unique approach to his craft, which sees the sensitive lines of East Asian design fused with the industrial design aesthetic emerging in the USA at the time of the coffee table's introduction.
The Noguchi Table is a beautiful, timeless piece that would complement any interior, be it contemporary or classical in tone.
Isamu Noguchi was an American-Japanese designer who originally trained as a sculptor and brought a sculptural sensibility to everything he created: lighting, furniture, gardens and stage sets. He studied sculpture, after dropping out of medical school, in late 1920s New York and then in Paris as an assistant to Constantin Brancusi.
Noguchi designed a range of paper Akari lights throughout the 1950s and 1960s, alongside the popular organic furniture he made in curvy sculpted wood now part of the Vitra Collection, such as the Freeform Sofa and Coffee Table. He was equally prolific as a landscape architect; he recreated the ancient Buddhist stone gardens he had loved in Kyoto at Lever House in New York (1951), UNESCO in Paris (1951), the Yale campus (1960) and Jerusalem’s Israel Museum (1960).
