Akari light sculptures in the Noguchi Museum Shop
Photo: Riccardo Sossella

The Noguchi Museum Shop is a music-filled showroom for Isamu Noguchi’s Akari light sculptures and a sales space for artists and designers whose work embodies Noguchi’s legacy of craft and form. The room is curated by Evan Aptaker Scott, Director of Retail and Merchandising.

Visitors can browse over 70 models of Akari light sculptures, as well as art, design, and publications.

Check out the Museum Shop playlist on Spotify.


Visit the Shop
The Shop is open during Museum hours: Wednesdays–Sundays, 11 am–5:45 pm. noguchi.org/visit.

Guests who are only visiting the Shop may visit at any time during open hours without a reservation.


Contact
For inquiries about artists and designers featured in the Shop, email shop@noguchi.org.

 

Featured in the Shop

Charmaine Bee
Detail of Portal textile by Charmaine Bee
Opening January 24, the Shop presents an installation of new works by the multidisciplinary artist Charmaine Bee.
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Ceramic Whistles
Ceramic whistles
The Noguchi Museum Shop is pleased to introduce a series of handcrafted whistles by ceramist and teacher Paola Biancalana (b. 1958, Ficulle).
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Kite House Magoji
Kite House Magoji colorful paper kites in the Noguchi Museum Shop with Akari light sculptures
Kite House Magoji is a third-generation handmade kite maker in Tobata, Kitakyushu, Japan.
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Kungyokudo
Kungyokudo Incense in the Noguchi Museum Shop
The Noguchi Museum Shop is among the few United States retailers for Japan’s oldest incense house, based in Kyoto and founded in 1594.
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Prismatic Tables
Tri-tone grey prismatic tables configured to form a tesselated pattern
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum and Vitra are pleased to reintroduce Isamu Noguchi’s Prismatic Table in three new color variations, now available for sale worldwide.
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Miwa Neishi
Miwa Neishi ceramics
Miwa Neishi is a Tokyo-born, New York-based artist whose sculptural ceramics draw inspiration from abstract expressionism, prehistoric clay figures, and Japanese calligraphy.
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The Brother In Elysium
Detail, Artwork in A Symbol of Constancy
The Brother In Elysium is a publishing imprint and studio run by artist Jon Beacham, issuing handmade books and editions incorporating letterpress printing, 16mm film, photography, collage, and offset lithography.
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Chen Chen & Kai Williams
Nugget keychains, Serpent Bottle Opener and Serpent Lighter Holder by Chen Chen & Kai Williams...
Chen Chen & Kai Williams is a Brooklyn-based design studio that explores materials and new ways to use them.
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Toshimichi Kato
Toshimichi Kato vessels in Noguchi Museum Shop
Toshimichi Kato (1958–2019) ran his family’s Seto-based ceramic studio, Oujigama, and maintained an individual practice. The Shop is honored to present Kato’s vases for the first time in the United States.
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Hyung Jun Kim and Seo Seok Man
Hyung Jun Kim And Seo Seok Man Dogabi 3
Artists Hyung Jun Kim and Seo Seok Man are founders of THR Ceramic Studio in Seoul. In their individual practices, they push aspects of traditional Korean culture into radical new directions.
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Liam Lee
Liam Lee
Liam Lee’s one-of-a-kind panels are conceived as large format, highly sculptural drawings in fiber that play with scale, from the microscopic to the topographic.
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Mayuki Kato / Shizu Designs
Wrapped Porcelain Rocks-1
A series of unique porcelain rocks by artist Mayuki Kato (Seto, Japan) wrapped in rattan knots by Shizu Designs (Berkeley, California).
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Shigeki Fujishiro
Shigeki Fujishiro Knot Baskets and Tableware
Designer Shigeki Fujishiro’s use of a certain distinctive red unites his baskets constructed entirely of knotted rope and a collection of porcelain tableware made in Arita, Japan.
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Artists and Designers Stocked

Aaron Murray
Alice Sparkly Kat
Aoshima Co., Ltd./ Aji Project
Atsushi Sakai
Beate Reinheimer & Ulrike Rehm
Carlos Barbosa & Hugo Passos
Chen Chen & Kai Williams
Christien Meindertsma
Gatio Mikio Shoten
Horst Max Lebert
Hyung Jun Kim
Isamu Kenmochi
Isamu Noguchi
Jean Lee & Dylan Davis
Karen Okino Butzbach & Shizu Okino
Keiji Takeuchi
Kite House Magoji

Liam Lee
Miwa Neishi
Masahiro Mori
Mayuki Kato
Mayumi Waku
Mosuke Yoshitake
Origin Made
Samantha Kattan
Seo Seok Man
Shigeki Fujishiro
Sori Yanagi
Studio Folie À Plusieurs
Takenobu Igarashi
The Brother In Elysium
Thomas Eyck
Tile Kiosk
Toshimichi Kato

As many items are limited or one-of-a-kind, they are available in-store only.

The full range of Akari light sculptures are available online, though due to extraordinary demand and their handmade nature, quantities may be limited. 

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