Isamu Noguchi Patent Holder: Designing the World of Tomorrow

Catalog accompanying an exhibition of Isamu Noguchi’s design work in furniture, industrial products including his Akari lighting, playscapes, set designs, and architectural and landscape elements, held at The Noguchi Museum, New York, June 4, 2014 - January 4, 2015 and at Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St John’s University, New York, January 15 - March 19, 2015. Published by the Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery in 2015. Primary text by Deborah A. Goldberg, based on her unpublished dissertation from the IFA titled Isamu Noguchi: The Artist as Visionary Designer, 1918-1939 that traces the symbiotic relationship between Noguchi’s art and design from the late teens through the 1939 World’s Fair. 4to (8.75” x 11.75”), pictorial wrappers, 44 pages, illustrated throughout in b/w and color. With a chronological exhibition checklist with thumbnail images and curatorial information at the end, along with Mild rippling to textblock. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with 1” patch of glue residue to top corner of front wrapper.