{"product_id":"isamu-noguchi-i-am-not-a-designer","title":"Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”","description":"\u003cp\u003eA major retrospective offers a new perspective on the work of Noguchi, whose remarkable design and artistic legacy encompasses sculpture, lighting, furniture, ceramics, public plazas, and garden design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs part of its 100th anniversary celebrations in 2026, the High Museum of Art is launching an exhibition and accompanying catalogue, which together explore the extraordinary sixty-year career of influential artist and designer Isamu Noguchi. Next year is also the fiftieth anniversary of Playscapes, a Noguchi-designed playground located just a few blocks from the museum. Though Noguchi claimed he was not a designer, the High Museum approaches his work through the design lens, bringing to light many potently prescient and under-explored aspects of his practice. Noguchi exemplified the interdisciplinary, social-minded approach to the role of artist-designer, and his never-ending search for modes of expression reflected an unusually expansive view that extended across everything from sculpture, furniture, and lighting to landscapes, stage sets, and kitchen timers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive volume features more than twenty in-depth essays and shorter vignettes by an impressive international roster of scholars and curators, addressing all aspects of Noguchi’s design practice. In addition, a rich and diverse selection of more than 250 archival and contemporary images depict the works in the exhibition as well as illuminate and expand on Noguchi’s exceptional career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssential reading for Noguchi fans, this book also appeals to lovers of modern art, mid-twentieth-century architecture and design, and the creative ethos that imbues everything Noguchi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 368 pages, 2026.\u003cbr\u003e275 color and b\/w illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11.2 x 10.1 x 1.4 in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47396325130418,"sku":"978-0847876198","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/8155\/9218\/files\/Isamu-Noguchi-I-am-not-a-designer-cover_1000x_e6ae7b13-a557-4014-a293-3b5f80fd4531.jpg?v=1778258936","url":"https:\/\/museumstore.sfmoma.org\/products\/isamu-noguchi-i-am-not-a-designer","provider":"SFMOMA Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}