Isamu Noguchi: Oneness and the Noguchi Table
"He honed each discipline into one grand study of material and form that launched him and his work into the public eye, making him a leading artistic mind in the world of design."
Isamu Noguchi’s life, story, and art encapsulate everything. An avid traveler, Noguchi’s artistic influences came from world-wide inspirations. In his early years he lived in Japan, Indiana, Connecticut, and New York City. After studying with Onorio Ruotolo at the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art in New York, Noguchi took the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and worked in Brancusi’s Parisian studio. He then returned to America, traveled throughout Asia, Mexico, and Europe where he collected, studied, reimagined, and experimented his way through the art, architecture, and design that the world had to offer.
In the end, Noguchi settled on sculpture as his primary focus, pulling his now expansive knowledge of nearly every form of art to create a sense of oneness between them.
He honed each discipline into one grand study of material and form that launched him and his work into the public eye, making him a leading artistic mind in the world of design.
The Noguchi Portfolio
Reaching beyond the simple existence of a thing, Noguchi had a way with art and architecture that gave his designs a distinguished, unobtrusive, organic expression. Perhaps one of his most popular designs, the Noguchi® Table epitomizes Noguchi’s connection to the nature of materials, and his flawless ability to make furniture that inspires and complements whatever space it enters.
Expanding on this idea, the Noguchi® Rudder Table blends contrasting materials into a harmonious piece, making them flow seamlessly from one surface to the next.
Noguchi found art in everything, famously stating that “everything is sculpture.” Beyond his work with furniture, Noguchi’s portfolio extends to plazas, fountains, gardens, playgrounds, paper lights, busts, stage sets, and more. Throughout his six-decade career, Noguchi embraced every aspect of art – from materials to techniques – leaving nothing untried. As a result, his legacy is broad, his designs distinctive, and his name synonymous with oneness.
