Mid Century Modern

Visiting The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan was the highlight of my recent visit in Japan. There are two Noguchi museums in the world: one in Long Island City, New York and one in Mure, Japan. The one in Japan is located in Mure in Kagawa prefecture on the island of Shikoku (approximately 330 miles [...]

Isamu Noguchi (1904 – 1988) was a sculptor, architect, craftsman and designer. He was born in Los Angeles to Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet and Leonie Gilmour, an American poet and writer. In 1906, his mother took him to Japan to be near his father. Noguchi spent most of his childhood in Japan where he [...]