Coffee Table | Freeform Sofa
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Coffee Table | Freeform Sofa
Coffee Table | Freeform Sofa Rocking Stool | Prismatic Table Noguchi Collection The work of the Japanese-American artist and designer Isamu Noguchi is extraordinarily multi-faceted. In addition to sculptures, he also created stage sets, furniture, lighting, interiors, public spaces and gardens. As a sculptor, he was not only interested in materials and forms, but also in the spatial effect of objects and even in the design of space itself. It was his intention to create artworks with practical and social relevance. Noguchi's work left a lasting mark on 1950s design. Since 2002, the Vitra Design Museum has produced reeditions of Noguchi's designs in co-operation with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, New York. Several of these models are represented in the Collection of the Vitra Design Museum. Coffee Table Noguchi designed the first version of this table, with a glass top resting on interconnected rosewood supports, for the private residence of MoMA president A. Conger Goodyear during the 1930s. In a modified design from 1944, which reflected his preoccupation with sculptural, biomorphic structures, Noguchi transformed the original idea into a base consisting of two identical wooden elements, one of which is reversed and pinned to the other at a right angle. The Coffee Table has been produced for the US market by Herman Miller since 1947; the Vitra Design Museum began production for the European market in 2002. It is regarded today as one of Noguchi’s best-known designs. Freeform Sofa Noguchi’s sculptural idiom gains full expression in this sofa, which clearly distinguishes itself from other designs of the same period. The sofa and ottoman seem almost like a greatly enlarged sculpture of flat, rounded river stones; yet at the same time, their slender organic forms are graceful and vigorous. Noguchi emphasised this effect with thin, but extremely comfortable upholstery padding and a choice of cover fabrics in natural colours. The Freeform Sofa and companion Ottoman were produced around 1950 in limited number. Today, the few remaining pieces achieve record prices at auction. Since 2002, the group has been produced by the Vitra Design Museum as a fully authentic re-edition. The sofa is suitable not only for use in the living room, but also in lobbies, hotels and retail shops. Rocking Stool During his entire lifetime, Noguchi alternated between East and West. After returning from Japan in 1954, he presented the design for a Rocking Stool to US furniture manufacturer Hans Knoll. Its form evokes the hourglass shape of African stools. Although Noguchi originally wanted to make the stool out of polyurethane, a new plastic, he ultimately decided on a combination of more traditional materials: wood for the seat and foot, and chrome-plated steel rods for the central support. Prismatic Table The small Prismatic Table was Noguchi's first furniture design intended for serial production. Made of bent aluminium sheeting, it was created for Alcoa (Aluminum Company of America), who wanted to demonstrate new applications of its primary product. Noguchi’s own motivation for this design can be traced to his previous experimentation with sheet metal (particularly brass sheeting), which began during his work with Brancusi in Paris. All measurements in millimetres and inches Coffee Table Vitra Design Museum re-edition. Frame of solid black ash, walnut or maple. Table top 19 mm glass. 3000 118” 930 36 1/2 ” Freeform Sofa 375 14 3/4” 400 15 3/4” Rocking Stool Re-edition Vitra Design Museum. Stool in two sizes. Slightly rounded seat and base elements made of maple, natural colour or walnut stain. Connecting element with diagonal struts made of chrome-plated steel rod. 1200 47 1/4” 720 281/4” Prismatic Table Re-edition Vitra Design Museum. Aluminium corpus, powder-coated finish in black or white. 710 28” 1300 511/4” Freeform Sofa and Ottoman Re-edition Vitra Design Museum. Solid wood frame, upholstered. Removable cover in Soft fabric. Legs made of maple, natural finish or walnut stain, depending on colour of upholstery fabric. 340 131/2 ” Programme features 410 161/4” 1280 50 1/2 ” Soft Freeform Sofa & Ottoman Coffee Table Coffee Table Ø 360 Ø14 1/4” 250 9 3/4” 425 16 3/4” Ø 360 Ø14 1/4” Prismatic Table Rocking Stool Prismatic Table Rocking Stool Deviations in colour are possible due to the printing process. Noguchi Collection 1944 Coffee Table 1944 Cylinder Lamp 1946 Freeform Sofa 1954 Rocking Stool 1954/1955 Dining Table 1957 Prismatic Table Vitra International AG, Birsfelden, CH | Vitra Ges.m.b.H., Wien, A | NV Vitra Belgium SA, Diegem, B | Vitra AG, Birsfelden, Showroom: Zürich, CH | Vitra koncept, s.r.o., Praha, CZ | Vitra GmbH, Weil am Rhein, D | Vitra Hispania S.A., Madrid, Showroom: Barcelona, E, Lisboa, P | Vitra, Paris, F | Vitra Ltd., London, GB | Vitra International AG, Budapest, HU | Vitra (Nederland) B.V., Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, NL | Vitra Scandinavia AS, Oslo, N | Vitra International AG, Warszawa, PL | Vitra Furniture Pte. Ltd., Singapore | Vitra Inc., New York, San Francisco, USA | email: [email protected] | www.vitra.com 2006, Art.-Nr. 097 312 20 ® All intellectual property rights, such as trademarks, patents and copyrights are reserved. Nothing shown on this printed matter may be reproduced without written permission.
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