Lounge Table

Designed 1944; Manufactured 1945

In 1944, Isamu Noguchi designed this low glass-topped table resting on organic-shaped walnut forms. To create it, he returned to the design of a unique object he had made in the late 1930s and revised it for manufacture by the Herman Miller company. Here, transparency is combined with balance, as the top is unfixed and the two support legs hinge at a single point.