Found this photo of Isamu Kenmochi’s round rattan chair at the site of Artnet Magazine
More importantly:
Isamu Kenmochi Chairs are now available!!
Noguchi Museum is now distributing the iconic Isamu Kenmochi Rattan Chair.
Kenmochi Chair c. 1960 Retail Price $2200.00 with black cushion
The Chair is in the Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has not been widely available in North America.
Corresponding Exhibition
Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi
From September 19, 2007 through March 16, 2008
The Noguchi Museum will present Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi, an exploration of the dynamic relationship between the two designers, and how the cross-fertilization of traditional Japanese aesthetics, materials and fabrication techniques and western modernism and production methods influenced in each designer’s work. Additionally, the exhibition will trace Noguchi’s early furniture designs and how they affected his work in Japan in the early 1950s as well as its impact on Kenmochi and the Industrial Arts Research Institute. It will also bring to the forefront an awareness and appreciation of the significance of Kenmochi’s contribution to modern 20th century design. The exhibition will include approximately 25 furniture, interior and industrial design objects by Kenmochi and drawings and vintage photographs. Most will be borrowed from collections in Japan. There will be approximately 25 objects by Noguchi, most importantly his furniture from the Shin Banraisha, borrowed from Keio University, in addition to drawings and photographs. Of particular interest and pivotal to this exhibition will be the replication of the strikingly original iron and woven bamboo chair that Noguchi and Kenmochi collaborated on in 1950, which is no longer extant.
See the Nochuchi Museum at Long Island City.
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