“The light of Akari is like the light of the sun filtered through the paper of Shoji. The harshness of electricity is thus transformed through the magic of paper back to the light of our origin—the sun—so that its warmth may continue to fill our rooms at night.”
“I do not disdain the use of things. I think of something that is useable as having an additional proof of its right to exist. A work of art you can sit on, is no less a work of art because you can sit on it.”
Located at The Noguchi Museum, the Shop is a showroom for Akari light sculptures and furniture, and a sales space for artists, designers, and craftspeople whose work embodies Noguchi’s legacy of craft and form.
Explore the Shop
Isamu Noguchi’s essential 1987 catalogue to his Museum is offered in a new facsimile edition, and in hardcover for the first time since its initial printing. Along with this book, over a dozen publications on Noguchi and related exhibitions worldwide are available.
A series of fifteen prints crafted by Ozeki & Co., the manufacturers of Isamu Noguchi’s Akari light sculptures since 1951. Based on Noguchi’s abstract designs for Akari, they are screenprinted on mulberry bark washi paper in Japan.
