For their Sea Ranch project featuring soaring ceilings, Commune Design commissioned two bespoke paper lanterns larger and ...

Take a look at the work and life of the design icon, a New Yorker with a global spirit and a desire to shape our surroundings ...

In May 1942, Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi made a brave decision, choosing to enter the Poston War Relocation Camp in the Arizona desert. The artist was among the people of Japanese descent ...

In the 1940s, artist Isamu Noguchi experimented with a series of “lunar landscapes,” embedding lights in undulating magnesite cement. While some were freestanding sculptures, three were site-specific ...

It sits like a dark, faceless plastic mask, more like a prototype for a Star Wars film. Eight inches high and made of black Bakelite, Isamu Noguchi’s Radio Nurse is not only a modern design that fits ...

The Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi made his way back into the spotlight recently, with the addition of one of his sculptures in the Rose Garden at the White House. Meanwhile, here in New York, ...

Isamu Noguchi, born on November 17, 1904, in Los Angeles, California, was a prolific Japanese-American artist and landscape architect known for his innovative sculptures, public spaces, and furniture ...

His ideas, at the start, were limitless and detailed. Noguchi wanted to organize lectures on Japanese art as well as arts and crafts activities, figuring that such vocational training could prove ...

Inside SFO’s International Hall, before you get to security, there’s a visual treat you don’t need a ticket to see: two giant cases displaying Isamu Noguchi: Inside and Out. You’ve probably seen at ...

Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was among the most innovative American sculptors of the 20th century. His design for “Sculpture to Be Seen from Mars” (1947) anticipates the space age by several decades.

TO DEVOTEES OF the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, there is no place more magical than the island of Shikoku, overlooking Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. There, in the town of Mure, Noguchi created some of the most ...