Collection: Isamu Noguchi

1937 First mass-produced product, the Babyfon Radio Nurse for the Zenith Radio Corporation, Chicago, Illinois. 1939–50s Various furniture designs for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, Zeeland, Michigan, including a coffee table and the Freeform Sofa. 1944/45 Exhibits a chess table at The Imagery of Chess exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. 1951 Akari lamps made of traditional Japanese materials. 1955–58 First garden design for UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, inspired by traditional Japanese gardens. From 1961 Studio in Long Island City, New York. 1968 Publishes his autobiography A Sculptor’s World; first retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. From 1969 Studio in Mure-cho on Shikoku, Japan. 1985 Opening of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City (now the Noguchi Museum). 1999 Opening of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Japan, in his former studio in Mure-cho.

Text: Adrian Luncke