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Akari E

Suspended lights from Vitra, Designed by Isamu Noguchi

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Product description

2950 x 480 x 480 mm

Concept

In 1951, American/Japanese artist and designer Isamu Noguchi started to design the Akari Light Sculptures, a total of over 100 hand-made Shoji-paper models for table lights, standard lamps or ceiling luminaires. For the name of this lighting series he chose the word “akari”, the Japanese terms for brightness and light, and also lightness. Collection Vitra Design Museum.

“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 ist warmth may continue to fill our rooms at night.” (Isamu Noguchi)

More about this product

Categorised in Interior lighting - Suspended lights - Lighting objects - General lighting - Paper / cardboard.
Part of the collection AT HOME.
Manufacturer Vitra
Family Akari Light Sculptures
Architonic ID 1024045
Order number 201 527 01
Year of Launch 1951

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Contact information

Address

Klünenfeldstrasse 22, 4127 Birsfelden Switzerland

Telephone

Phone: +41 61 377 00 00 Fax: +41 61 377 15 10

Website

www.vitra.com

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€2,680

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