Lounge Table
Designed 1944; Manufactured 1945
Isamu Noguchi
American, 1904-1988
Decorative Arts
In 1944, Isamu Noguchi designed this low glass-topped table resting on organic-shaped walnut forms. To create it, he returned to the design of a unique object he had made in the late 1930s and revised it for manufacture by the Herman Miller company. Here, transparency is combined with balance, as the top is unfixed and the two support legs hinge at a single point.
- Maker/Artist
- Noguchi, Isamu
- Classification
- Furniture
- Formatted Medium
- Glass, walnut
- Locations
- Place manufactured: Zeeland, Michigan, United States
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15 3/4 x 50 x 36 in. (40.0 x 127.0 x 91.4 cm); Glass tabletop: 42 x 44 x 3/4 in. (106.7 x 111.8 x 1.9 cm)
- Departments
- Decorative Arts
- Accession Number
- 76.96a-c
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. Lawrence Herring
- Exhibitions
- Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960, American Identities: A New Look
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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