Mid-Century Noguchi Style Biomorphic "Airplane" Coffee Table

0riginal 1950s black lacquer biomorphic "Airplane" coffee table with matching end table, both in the style of Isamu Noguchi and commonly nicknamed the "Airplane Table" for its interl...

This beautifully restored Paul Frankl-inspired large 66" wide Mid-century biomorphic shaped rattan & Formica coffee table with an oversized grass mat border and vertically stacked rattan pole legs. It features a wood-grain Formica tabletop with an amoeba-like biomorphic shape. It is encircled with an oversized tabletop border featuring woven rattan and grass mat inserts for natural texture resting on large vertically stacked rattan pole legs. This unique combination of materials and shapes captures the essence of Modern design with a Hawaiian charm...

Isamu Noguchi for Herman Miller Mid Century Noguchi Coffee Table This coffee table measures: 41 wide x 37 deep x 15.5 inches high All pieces of furniture can be had in what we call...

T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Biomorphic cocktail table w Interesting Anecdote of Isamu Noguchi. Cocktail table designed by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings for Widdcomb constructed of solid carved maple sculptural base and biomorphic glass top. If you have not read the story of the infamous meeting between T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings and Isamu Noguchi you should, it would be worth your time. Shortly after Noguchi created the sculpted wood and glass coffee table in 1939 for the president of the MOMA, Conger Goodyear, he had a chance meeting in Hawaii with Gibbings and provided Gibbings a plastic mockup of a coffee table but never heard back from him. A few years after the meeting while Noguchi was voluntarily interred in a WW2 Japanese-American internment camp in Potsdam, AZ, Noguchi saw in a design publication the built example of the mockup he had provided Gibbings in Hawaii a few years earlier but represented as a T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings' design. He contacted the British designer asking for compensation and was basically dismissed being told "anyone can design a three leg coffee table...