Vitra Noguchi Coffee Table
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Manufacturer: Vitra
Designer: Isamu Noguchi 1944
This is an original genuine Vitra piece.
Noguchi himself described Coffee Table as his best furniture design no doubt because it is extremely reminiscent of his bronze and marble scupltures of the time translating the latter's biomorphic formal language unadulterated into a piece of sculptural furniture: glass table top resting on two identical wooden elements placed at right angles.
Materials: varnished solid wood base 19mm glass top with rounded edges and artist's signature engraved in the glass.
Dimensions: Width 1280mm x Depth 930mm x Height 400mm
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.