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Rare chess table, model no. IN-61 by 
																	 Herman Miller

Isamu Noguchi

( American, 1904 - 1988 )

Rare chess table, model no. IN-61

Isamu Noguchi

( Japanese, 1904 - 1988 )

Rare chess table, model no. IN-61

Herman Miller

( American, est. 1905)

Rare chess table, model no. IN-61

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Materials:

Ebonized plywood, painted cast aluminum, acrylic inlays

Measurements:

18.74 in. (47.60 cm.) (height) by 24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (width) by 24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (width)

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Literature:

Sculptor Noguchi Designs Free-from Tables," House and Garden, January 1948, p. 82 The Herman Miller Collection, sales catalogue, Zeeland, 1948, p. 55 Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue, New York, 1980, cat. no. 810 Derek E. Ostergard, George Nakashima: Full Circle, exh. cat., American Craft Museum, New York, 1989, p. 134 Martin Eidelberg, ed., What Modern Was: Design 1935-1965, New York, 1991, pp. 107-8 Bruce Altshuler, Noguchi, New York, 1994, p. 52 Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2001, pp. 78-79, 126-27, 287 Larry List, ed., The Imagery of Chess, exh. cat., The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, 2005, cover, pp. vi, 129, 131 Ghislaine Wood, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2007, p. 305 Amy Wolf, On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and his Contemporaries, 1922-1960, exh. cat., The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, 2011, pp. 77-78

Provenance:

Private collection, Ohio Acquired by the present owner circa 1999

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