$233,000
Isamu Noguchi
Rare and Important Chess table, model IN-61
Herman Miller USA, 1944 ebonized ash plywood, painted cast aluminum, acrylic inlays, brass, steel 26¼ w x 25¼ d x 19½ h in (67 x 64 x 50 cm)
result: $233,000
Wright would like to thank The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum and for their assistance cataloguing the present lot.
provenance: Private Collection
literature: Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design , Eisenbrand, Posch and von Vegesack, ppg. 78-79, 126-127, 287 The Imagery of Chess Revisited , List and Schaffner, cover, ppg. vi, 129, 131 Design 1935-65, What Modern Was, Eidelberg, ppg. 107-108 Interiors Library 2: Chairs , Nelson, pg. 33
Auctioneer:
Wright Auctions
Date:
2016-11-17
