Isamu Noguchi Prismatic Side Table - Gray Furniture under $350 The separate back and seat

The separate back and seat provide visual interest—and they also initially simplified production in the early days of the chair

With contributions by Laurence Kardish

a manufacturer with work in MoMA's collection

held at Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1938

Isamu Noguchi Prismatic Side Table - Gray Furniture under $350 The separate back and seatIn the mid 1950s, designer and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi began experimenting with aluminum, a material that had become fashionable in interior design. In 1957, he conceived the Prismatic Side table, a design composed of three folded pieces of aluminum fastened together to create a hexagonal top that transitions into three legs. After developing several monochromatic variations, he designed these three versions in arrangements of three