Isamu Noguchi and Yoshiko Yamaguchi in Chuo Koron Gallery, Japan, 1952-53. Photographer unknown. Courtesy The Noguchi Museum

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.-The Noguchi Museum presents Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi, an exhibition that explores the dynamic and productive working relationship between artist-designer Isamu Noguchi and the man credited with the invention of what came to be known as “Japanese Modern.” For just under two years beginning in 1950, Noguchi and interior designer Isamu Kenmochi, who worked at the Industrial Arts Research Institute (IARI), in Tokyo, worked together, pushing at the boundaries that separated tradition from modernism, hand crafting from mechanical production.

Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi, which remains on view through March 16, 2008, explores this collaboration and other work by the two men with a rich selection of some eighty-five works borrowed from collections in Japan and the United States. These will trace Noguchi’s early furniture designs, including their impact on Kenmochi, while revealing the latter’s important contributions to twentieth-century design.

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