Isamu Noguchi began designing the Akari Light Sculptures in 1951, after a trip to Gifu, a town famous for its manufacture of paper umbrellas and lanterns.
It was here that he made his first two lamps. The name “akari” means “light” in Japanese, connoting both illumination and physical lightness.
Over the following years, he created more than 100 lamps, divided into table lamps, floor lamps and pendants, ranging in size from 24 to 290 cm.
Material Washi paper, Bamboo/steel wire
Light source E27, LED 4W, 2700K
Isamu NOGUCHI
Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles in 1904, is the son of Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and American writer Leonie Gilmour. After studying at Columbia University and the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art, he set up his own studio and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927.
He then worked as an assistant to the sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Paris and organized his first solo exhibition in New York. His technique employs Chinese brush drawing and the art of ceramics, which he studied under Jinmatsu Uno in Japan.
His various influences make him a universal artist whose field of expression encompasses sculpture, furniture, lighting, interior design and the design of squares and gardens. His sculptural style is characterized by organic, expressive forms.
“My father, Yone Noguchi, is Japanese and has long been known as an interpreter from East to West, through poetry. I want to fulfill my heritage,” he wrote in his proposal for a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Isamu Noguchi died in New York in 1988.
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