Designer • Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)

Son of a Japanese father and an American mother, Noguchi was born in Los Angeles.
He lived in Japan until he was 14 years old and then went to live in the United States.

Both in his personal life and him his work Isamu Noguchi, the sculptor, blen oriental with occidental culture.

In his youth he worked has an apprentice to Gutzon Borglum, creator of the gigantic portraits of the American president's sculpted in the mount Rush More in South Dakota.

In Paris he worked with the rumanian abstract sculptore "Costantine Brancusi".

In the 30's he travelled extensively in the far east studying calligraphy in China and ceramics and landscape gardening in Japan.

Noguchi has worked with the most diverse materials suck has bronze, marble, wood, granite, paper, bone, and wire.
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