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Isamu Noguchi
So called due to the intermingled chromium plated steel rods forming the leg of the table and recalling of the shape of a cyclon. Formed by a molted metal base varnished in black and a board made of laminated wood in white. The rods of the leg give to the table a light look and remember of the futuristic sculptures trying to represent movement. Son of the japonese poet Yone Noguchi, he studied medicine in the University of Columbia, although he did not professionally practised it. Noguchi was a great sculptor who tried to bring some sculpture attributes close to the common experience of living, and he got it through the industrial production of his organic designs, with a huge visual attraction. Essential for the development of his work was the time he stayed in Paris, where he knew sculptors such as Alberto Giacometti and Alexander Calder, and where he carried out an enthusiastic abstract sculpture. Surrealism had also a strong influence on him.
138aC
138aC
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CYCLONE TABLE