Isamu Noguchi
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Isamu Noguchi was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold.
The Garden of Peace, UNESCO headquarters, Paris. Donated by the Government of Japan, this garden was designed by Isamu Noguchi in 1958 and installed by Japanese gardener Toemon Sano.
Isamu Noguchi at the Noguchi Garden Museum, c.1985, ©David Finn Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Heimar (1968), at the Billy Rose Sculpture Garden, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
George Nelson (designer)
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George Nelson was an American industrial designer. While lead designer for the Herman Miller furniture company, Nelson and his design studio, George Nelson Associates, designed 20th-century modernist furniture. He is considered a founder of American modernist design.
"Ball" Wall Clock, 1948–1969 Brooklyn Museum
George Nelson & Associates for Miller Furniture Company, desk n. 4658, made in Zeeland, MI, 1946
The bubble lamp, one of Nelson's designs.