Isamu Noguchi, the famous japanese-american abstract sculptor was also a landscape architect, stage designer and furniture designer.
He first became interested in lamps after a trip to Japan. Compared with the cheerful and glowing lanterns of the Orient, American lamps seemed ugly to Noguchi and th elight they shed seemed brash. Deciding that in the U.S. undue stress is put on scientific efficiency in lighting, he set to work designing lamps which would be used not to read or work by but to provide pure decoration both in their shapes and colors and the soft, pleasant pools of light they shed. Experimenting with various materials - cast tone, plaster, glass panels, paper and plastics - he made amazing lamps priced from $19.50 to $125.
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photos and documentation: LIFE Magazine (US) | Zetu Harrys collection.
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