Isamu Noguchi, early Akari light, Ozeki manufactory in Gifu, Japan.

Light fixture made of washi paper. Fixed by a steel wire frame on a bamboo stick.

Black painted cast iron base.

Small cut to the paper at the bottom edge.

Signature:

Early moon-sun signature.

In the base “Made in Japan”.

On the fixing screws of the shade holder “Made in Japan”.

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Rare Akari lamp by the American-Japanese artist Isamu Noguchi.

It comes from the private property of the owner of the former Düsseldorf-based and world-famous restaurant Kikaku.

He had acquired it in the early 1960s in Japan.