Isamu Kenmochi Chairs are now available!!

Noguchi Museum is now distributing the iconic Isamu Kenmochi Rattan Chair. Please call (718) 721-2308 x208 for information.

Kenmochi Chair c. 1960 Retail Price $2200.00 with black cushion

The Chair is in the Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has not been widely available in North America.


Corresponding Exhibition

Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi
From September 19, 2007 through March 16, 2008

The Noguchi Museum will present Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi, an exploration of the dynamic relationship between the two designers, and how the
cross-fertilization of traditional Japanese aesthetics, materials and
fabrication techniques and Western modernism and production methods
influenced in each designer's work. Additionally, the exhibition will trace
Noguchi's early furniture designs and how they affected his work in Japan in
the early 1950s as well as its impact on Kenmochi and the Industrial Arts
Research Institute. It will also bring to the forefront an awareness and
appreciation of the significance of Kenmochi's contribution to modern 20th
century design. The exhibition will include approximately 25 furniture,
interior and industrial design objects by Kenmochi and drawings and vintage
photographs. Most will be borrowed from collections in Japan. There will
be approximately 25 objects by Noguchi, most importantly his furniture from
the Shin Banraisha, borrowed from Keio University, in addition to drawings
and photographs. Of particular interest and pivotal to this exhibition will
be the replication of the strikingly original iron and woven bamboo chair
that Noguchi and Kenmochi collaborated on in 1950, which is no longer
extant.