Designer: Isamu Noguchi, 1957
Manufacturer: Vitra

Following a purely geometric design, the Prismatic Table takes inspiration from traditional Japanese paper folding techniques. The side table comprises three elements made of folded sheet aluminium with a high-quality powder-coated finish. Joined together they form a three-legged table with a hexagonal top.

Isamu Noguchi originally designed the Prismatic Tables in a combination of different colours, which reveal captivating kaleidoscope-like patterns when the tables are arranged together. Vitra has returned to this original idea and now produces the Prismatic Table in three versions, each featuring three parts in different combinations of muted shades of grey.

• Material: Powder-coated Sheet Aluminium

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PRISMATIC TABLE

This product was designed by 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.

Isamu Noguchi, born in 1904 in Los Angeles to the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and the American writer Leonie Gilmour, studied at Columbia University and the Leonardo da Vinci Art School.

He subsequently established his first independent studio and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927. Noguchi became an assistant to Constantin Brancusi in Paris and presented his first solo exhibition in New York. After studying brush drawing in China, he travelled to Japan to work with clay under the master potter Jinmatsu Uno.

His experiences living and working in different cultural circles are reflected in Isamu Noguchi's work as an artist. He is considered a universal talent with a creative oeuvre that went beyond sculpture to encompass stage sets, furniture, lighting, interiors as well as outdoor plazas and gardens. His sculptural style is indebted to a vocabulary of organic forms and exerted a sustained influence on the design of the 1950s.

'My Father, Yone Noguchi is Japanese and has long been known as an interpreter of the East and West, through poetry. I wish to do the same thing through sculpture', he wrote in his proposal for a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Isamu Noguchi died in New York in 1988.

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