Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Walnut — packshot
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table — lifestyle, with Vitra Anagram Sofa
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table — lifestyle, with Vitra cushions and Eames Wool Blanket
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table — lifestyle, with Vitra Coconut Chair and Cité Lounge Chair
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table — lifestyle, with Vitra Suita Sofa and Grand Relax
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Maple — packshot
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Walnut — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Walnut — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Walnut — packshot, detail
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Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Walnut — packshot
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table — lifestyle, with Vitra Anagram Sofa
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table — lifestyle, with Vitra cushions and Eames Wool Blanket
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table — lifestyle, with Vitra Coconut Chair and Cité Lounge Chair
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table — lifestyle, with Vitra Suita Sofa and Grand Relax
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Maple — packshot
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Walnut — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Walnut — packshot, detail
Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Walnut — packshot, detail
dimensions

Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table

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Manufacturer: Vitra | Designer: Isamu Noguchi, 1944

Sculpture You Can Live With

Noguchi himself described the Coffee Table as his best furniture design. Its sculptural form recalls his biomorphic sculptures in bronze and marble from the same period, translating their characteristic forms into a piece of furniture for everyday life. The heavy plate-glass top rests on two identical wooden elements placed at right angles to one another, held together by the logic of the form without a single connector.

The 19mm tempered glass top sits directly on the self-supporting wooden base, with its weight and geometry doing the work of any fixing. Each authentic Vitra edition produced since 2002 carries Isamu Noguchi's signature etched into the glass alongside the words "Vitra Design Museum", a mark of provenance as considered as the design itself.

Specifications

  • Dimensions: W128 × D93 × H40cm
  • Materials: 19mm tempered glass top with ground, rounded edges; self-supporting solid wood base
  • Finishes: solid ash or maple with lacquered finish; solid walnut with oiled finish; all with rounded edges
  • Wood origin: ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and maple (Acer platanoides) from Western Europe and/or Poland; walnut (Juglans nigra) from the USA, Western Europe and/or Poland
  • Authentication: Isamu Noguchi's signature and "Vitra Design Museum" etched into the glass on authentic Vitra editions produced since 2002

Part of the Vitra Coffee Tables collection and the Coffee Tables collection at Innes.

Dimensions

  • Width 1280mm x Depth 930mm x Height 400mm
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Materials

  • Table top: heavy glass,  mm, ground rounded edges.
  • Solid wood base: walnut with oiled finish, black ash with lacquered finish, maple with lacquered finish, rounded edges.
  • Origin of wood: ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and maple (Acer platanoides) from Western Europe and/or Poland, walnut (Juglans nigra) from the USA, Western Europe and/or Poland.
Description

Manufacturer: Vitra | Designer: Isamu Noguchi, 1944

Sculpture You Can Live With

Noguchi himself described the Coffee Table as his best furniture design. Its sculptural form recalls his biomorphic sculptures in bronze and marble from the same period, translating their characteristic forms into a piece of furniture for everyday life. The heavy plate-glass top rests on two identical wooden elements placed at right angles to one another, held together by the logic of the form without a single connector.

The 19mm tempered glass top sits directly on the self-supporting wooden base, with its weight and geometry doing the work of any fixing. Each authentic Vitra edition produced since 2002 carries Isamu Noguchi's signature etched into the glass alongside the words "Vitra Design Museum", a mark of provenance as considered as the design itself.

Specifications

  • Dimensions: W128 × D93 × H40cm
  • Materials: 19mm tempered glass top with ground, rounded edges; self-supporting solid wood base
  • Finishes: solid ash or maple with lacquered finish; solid walnut with oiled finish; all with rounded edges
  • Wood origin: ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and maple (Acer platanoides) from Western Europe and/or Poland; walnut (Juglans nigra) from the USA, Western Europe and/or Poland
  • Authentication: Isamu Noguchi's signature and "Vitra Design Museum" etched into the glass on authentic Vitra editions produced since 2002

Part of the Vitra Coffee Tables collection and the Coffee Tables collection at Innes.
Dimensions

Dimensions

  • Width 1280mm x Depth 930mm x Height 400mm
dimensions
Materials

Materials

  • Table top: heavy glass,  mm, ground rounded edges.
  • Solid wood base: walnut with oiled finish, black ash with lacquered finish, maple with lacquered finish, rounded edges.
  • Origin of wood: ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and maple (Acer platanoides) from Western Europe and/or Poland, walnut (Juglans nigra) from the USA, Western Europe and/or Poland.
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Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table in Black Ash — packshot, detail

Isamu Noguchi

The oeuvre of Japanese-American artist and designer Isamu Noguchi is unusually multi-faceted, ranging from the fine arts to industrial design. Since 2002, Vitra has produced re-editions of his designs in cooperation with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation in New York.

The Story

The Noguchi table was an evolution of a rosewood and glass table Noguchi designed in 1939 for A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art. The design team at Herman Miller was so impressed by the table's use of biomorphism that they recruited Noguchi to design a similar table with a freeform sculptural base and biomorphic glass top for use in both residential and office environments.

The 1947 Herman Miller catalog described the Noguchi coffee table as "sculpture-for-use" and "design for production".The base was carved from solid walnut, and consisted of two identical parts; when one part "is reversed and connected to the other by a pivot rod, a base appears which has a smoothly flowing form and an interest rarely found in furniture of any period". The shape of the two wooden supports produces a self-supporting and stable base, allowing the heavy plate glass top to be placed without the use of connectors.