Mid Century Modernist Japanese Cast Iron Ikebana Planter
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-Century Modernist iron Ikebana planter from Japan. It could also be used as a planter or incense burner with rocks. One side has a repeating linear design. 1960s perfect for a b...
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Mid Century Modernist Japanese Cast Iron Ikebana Planter
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-Century Modernist iron Ikebana planter from Japan. It could also be used as a planter or incense burner with rocks. One side has a repeating linear design. There is evidence of w...
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Japanese Ikebana Cast Iron Tripod Planter, Nanbu Tekki Style
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
A striking expression of Japanese minimalism and craftsmanship, this cast iron ikebana planter embodies the quiet elegance of traditional Nanbu tekki metalwork. Defined by its elonga...
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Vintage 1950s Isamu Noguchi BB3 / 55DD Floor Lamp (1 of 2)
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Virginia Beach, VA
The bamboo stem, cast iron base and electrical wiring are original from the 1950’s.
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Vintage 1950s Isamu Noguchi BB3 / 55DD Floor Lamp (2 of 2)
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Virginia Beach, VA
The bamboo stem, cast iron base and electrical wiring are original from the 1950’s.
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Tobia Scarpa style. Space Age Cocoon Resin table lamp, Italy, 1960s
By George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Tobia Scarpa, Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Friedel Wauer
Located in SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS, ES
Space Age table lamp in the style of Tobia Scarpa’s iconic “Nuvola” pendant lamp for Flos, Italy, 1960s. Brutalist vibe with a stylized red lacquered metal base, combined with an upp...
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1960s Mid Century Japanese Iron Bird / Crane sculpture set
Located in Virginia Beach, VA
Vintage table top bird sculptures in the style of Isamu Noguchi. Cast iron, hollowed body, with an elegant form with an applied Verdi gris patina.
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H 3.94 in W 10.24 in D 4.14 in
Japanese Mid Century Cast Iron Ikebana Planter in Style of Isamu Noguchi, 1950s
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Stockholm, SE
Very rare mid century Japanese ikebana cast iron planter dish in style of Isamu Noguchi produced in Japan, 1950s.
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Cast Iron Midcentury Japanese Geisha Figurine
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Cast iron Japanese geisha figurine, circa the 1960s. This piece in cast iron with a gold leaf finish and are quite heavy; they would make a great Mid-Century Modern accent in any space!
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Modernist Japanese Cast Iron Vase, 1960s
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-Century modernist iron vase from Japan. A compelling minimalist twisted form crafted from thick iron. Signed in the casting. Japan, 1960s
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Isamu Noguchi Bb3 / 55dd Akari Floor Lamp
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Isamu Noguchi BB3-55DD Akari floor lamp part of the Akari light sculpture line by Isamu Noguchi, considered icons of 1950s modern design. Designed by Noguchi beginning in 1951, handm...
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Nanbu Japan Cast Iron Ikebana Footed Vase / Planter ca 1950s/60s
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Nanbu, Japan Cast Iron Ikebana Footed Vase / Planter ca 1950s/60s Nanbu is an area of Japan that is famous for making quality cast iron products, including teapots and other housewa...
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H 2.5 in W 5.5 in D 5.75 in
Rare Sculptural Bowl by Bonniers Japan after Isamu Noguchi, circa 1950
By Isamu Noguchi, Bonniers
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Rare sculptural bowl by Bonniers Japan after Isamu Noguchi, circa 1950.
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Isamu Noguchi "AKARI" Lamp with Bamboo Stand 'BB', 1960s
By Isamu Noguchi, Ozeki & Co. Ltd. 1
Located in Tokyo, Tokyo
Very rare "Akari Light Sculpture" with the stand of BB series. The shade in washi paper and bamboo rim, and the cast iron base and bamboo stem.Hand-made by Ozeki in Gifu, Japan. ...
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H 12 in W 22 in D 6 in
Massive 2Ft Mid Century Modern Iron Brutalist Noguchi Insp Sculptural Candelabra
By Lee Reynolds, Vanguard Studios
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Massive 2Ft Mid Century Modern Brutalist Isamu Noguchi Insp Sculptural Abstract Cast Iron Candelabra Japan circa 1950 Extraordinary, hand forged, massive, 22" long, curved, hamme...
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Isamu Noguchi Bamboo and Paper Lantern Floor Lamp, 1950s
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Washington, DC
Early floor lamp by Isamu Noguchi. Cast iron base marked "Made in Japan". Retains the original rice paper shade.
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H 2.5 in W 2.5 in D 1 in
Tokaido Japanese Cast Iron Nambu Salt Pepper Shakers Japan like Noguchi Tackett
By La Gardo Tackett, Isamu Noguchi
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Cast metal salt and pepper shakers, will provide cork stoppers. Designer unknown. Ink stamped, Tokaido.
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Isamu Noguchi Akari Floor Lamp
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Dronten, NL
Poetic Isamu Noguchi Akari floor lamp, model BB3-33S. Cast iron base with bamboo stem and a handmade washi paper shade.
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Isamu Noguchi Akari Floor Lamp
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Dronten, NL
Poetic Isamu Noguchi Akari floor lamp, model BB3-33S. Cast iron base with bamboo stem and a handmade washi paper shade.
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Early Isamu Noguchi Floor Lamp
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in New York, NY
Early 1950s, Isamu Noguchi floor lamp, cast iron base and bamboo body, signed Isamu Noguchi Akari Japan.
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Isamu Noguchi Akari Floor Lamp BB3-33S
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Dronten, NL
Cast iron base with bamboo stem and a handmade washi paper shade.
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Nanbu Japan Cast Iron Ikebana Footed Vase / Planter ca 1950s/60s
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Nanbu, Japan Cast Iron Ikebana Footed Vase / Planter ca 1950s/60s Nanbu is an area of Japan that is famous for making quality cast iron products, including teapots and other housewa...
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Rare Isamu Noguchi Akari Floor Lamp BB3-55DD
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Dronten, NL
Poetic Isamu Noguchi Akari floor lamp, model BB3-55DD. Cast iron base with bamboo stem and a handmade washi paper shade.
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Isamu Noguchi Floor Lamp Akari Japan
By Isamu Noguchi, Akari
Located in Rochester, NY
Early vintage black cast iron base floor lamp with bamboo shaft by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) cast signed on underside of iron base, Akari Japan, I Noguchi.
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Isamu Noguchi Table Lamps - Akari, Japan
By Isamu Noguchi, Akari
Located in Rochester, NY
A pair of early vintage Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) black cast iron base table lamps with bamboo shafts.
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Isamu Noguchi for Knoll Black Top Cyclone Side Table
By Knoll, Isamu Noguchi
Located in Ferndale, MI
Cyclone occasional table designed by Isamu Noguchi for Knoll. Round cast iron base holds wire cyclone base supporting black laminate top.
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Akari Model BB3/33S 'Horn' Floor Lamp by Isamu Noguchi
By Akari, Isamu Noguchi
Located in Glendale, CA
The lamp sits upon a bamboo stem that is in a cast iron pebble-shaped base. The two horn-shaped shades fit into the lacquered bamboo ring.
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H 3.5 in W 10.5 in D 4.5 in
1950s Japanese Black Cast Iron Three Footed Tripod Bowl Vessel Planter Ikebana
By Bonniers, Isamu Noguchi
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A cast iron three footed tripod bowl from Japan circa 1950s. similar to Isamu Noguchis designs for Bonniers.
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Set of Modernist Japanese Ikebana Vases
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-Century Modernist vintage set of iron ikebana vases from Japan. Small, cast iron, built in frog, wonderful patina.
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Modernist Japanese Cast Iron Vase
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Cast iron vase from Japan. Great patina. Signed.
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Midcentury Cast Iron Ikebana Vessel from Japan
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Midcentury solid cast iron Ikebana vessel from Japan. There are three legs. Unsigned.
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Vintage Noguchi Style Cyclone Table
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vintage Noguchi Style Cyclone Table, With iron red laminate top, on typical stainless steel and iron base. Great color and proportions.
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Isamu Noguchi "Cyclone" Dining Table 36" Knoll
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Cyclone"Table designed by Isamu Noguchi for Knoll c.1954. Cast iron base with black finish, steel wire column and white laminate top.
Modernist Japanese Nambu Cast Iron Bowl
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Japanese Nambu cast iron decorative bowl, 1950s. Stamped Japan.
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Mid-Century Cast Iron Ikebana Vessel from Japan
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-Century solid cast iron Ikebana vessel from Japan. There are three legs. Unsigned.
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Early 1960s "Cyclone" Dining Table by Isamu Noguchi
By Isamu Noguchi, Knoll
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rather well-preserved example of Noguchi's Classic modernist table, which retains a Knoll label dating the piece to the early 1960s -- only a few years after 1957, when the Cyclone...
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Isamu Noguchi "Cyclone" Dining Table Knoll, circa 1960
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cyclone table designed by Isamu Noguchi for Knoll, 36" cast iron base, black finish, steel wire column, with an original blue laminate top, circa 1960.
Iron Ikebana Vessel from Japan, 1950s
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Midcentury solid cast iron Ikebana vessel from Japan. There are three legs. Unsigned.
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Mid-Century Iron Ikebana Vessel from Japan
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-Century solid cast iron Ikebana vessel from Japan. There are three legs. Unsigned.
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Mid-Century Iron Ikebana Vessel from Japan
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-Century solid cast iron Ikebana vessel from Japan. There are three legs. Unsigned.
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1980s Akari Floor Lamp by Isamu Noguchi
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Elegant Akari floor lamp designed by Isamu Noguchi in the early 1950s. This sculptural light consists of a hand-formed washi paper shade stretched over a delicate bamboo rib structu...
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Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
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The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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