Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne
Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne
Property from a Private American Collection
Isamu Noguchi
An Important Table
Auction Closed
May 25, 06:32 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private American Collection
Isamu Noguchi
An Important Table
1945-1947
marble, mahogany, spun aluminum
18 1/2 x 38 1/4 x 26 1/4 in. (47 x 97.1 x 66.6 cm)
Private Collection, New York, by the 1950s
Thence by descent to the present owner
Thence by descent to the present owner
"Fashion and Function are Combined: New Contemporary Designs Have Their Own Elegance," New York Herald Tribune, October 3, 1948 (for a period photograph of the model)
''On and off The Avenue: About the House," The New Yorker, February 12, 1949, p. 67 (for a review of the model retailed at Bloomingdale's, New York)
Ann Pringle, ''A Sculptor Plans a Home," New York Herald Tribune, February 15, 1949, p. 14 (for a discussion of the model and other free-form tables designed by Noguchi)
Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue, New York, 1980, no. 809 (for a period photograph of the model)
Bonnie Rychlak, et. al., Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi, New York, 2007, cover page and p. 40 (for another example of the model with a pink marble top)
Nicola Scevola, “Private Noguchi, Weston, Connecticut, USA,” Casa Vogue, April 2009, no. 31, p. 125 and cover (for another example of the model with a pink marble top)
Deborah A. Goldberg, Isamu Noguchi, Patent Holder: Designing the World of Tomorrow, exh. cat., The Noguchi Museum, New York, 2014, p. 3 (for another example of the model, recorded as item no. 809 C2 in the Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné)
Amy Auscherman, Sam Grawe and Leon Ransmeier, ed., Herman Miller: A Way of Living, London, 2019, p. 169 (for a period photograph of the model in the Herman Miller showroom, Los Angeles, circa 1950)
''On and off The Avenue: About the House," The New Yorker, February 12, 1949, p. 67 (for a review of the model retailed at Bloomingdale's, New York)
Ann Pringle, ''A Sculptor Plans a Home," New York Herald Tribune, February 15, 1949, p. 14 (for a discussion of the model and other free-form tables designed by Noguchi)
Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue, New York, 1980, no. 809 (for a period photograph of the model)
Bonnie Rychlak, et. al., Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi, New York, 2007, cover page and p. 40 (for another example of the model with a pink marble top)
Nicola Scevola, “Private Noguchi, Weston, Connecticut, USA,” Casa Vogue, April 2009, no. 31, p. 125 and cover (for another example of the model with a pink marble top)
Deborah A. Goldberg, Isamu Noguchi, Patent Holder: Designing the World of Tomorrow, exh. cat., The Noguchi Museum, New York, 2014, p. 3 (for another example of the model, recorded as item no. 809 C2 in the Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné)
Amy Auscherman, Sam Grawe and Leon Ransmeier, ed., Herman Miller: A Way of Living, London, 2019, p. 169 (for a period photograph of the model in the Herman Miller showroom, Los Angeles, circa 1950)