Bamboo Basket Chair--3(2011/08/05)
   Hanging from the ceiling or propped on skinny black legs, the Akari pieces are a perfect merger of sculpture and function. Some look like huge larval sacs; others like Brancusi eggs or amoebic creatures. One takes the vague shape of bull horns, recalling Picasso or Miró, but also the backrest on the bamboo basket chair.Another attempt to join form with function was Noguchi’s 1941 laminated wood table, which he created for Philip L. Goodwin (who with Edward Durell Stone designed the Museum of Modern Art). The table’s functional success is debatable: with its solid biomorphic form opening up a hole at the center, the table seems more like a Noguchi sculpture. Only its flat surface distinguishes it as a table. But you don’t imagine plopping your keys and cellphone down on it.
   The last room of the exhibition shows the two designers moving in a similar direction, exploring new materials and creating functional objects suited to the space age — or the swinging ’60s. Noguchi’s little prismatic table of 1957, commissioned by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), experiments with anodized aluminum. Kenmochi’s easy chair of 1963 looks a bit like his rattan round chair, but with a clear acrylic seat. It fits perfectly in the age of plastic.
   An exhibition born of a two-week collaboration in 1950 and one lost chair sounds like a dubious proposition, particularly as Noguchi stopped making furniture a few years later. But the show is less about categories — design versus art — than about relationships between people, nations and ideas. It suggests that objects exist as visual records of that dialogue.
   When he left Japan in September 1950, Noguchi gave Kenmochi a calligraphic drawing of the kanji character for “courage,” which is also the character for “Isamu.” Asked later to name the most important benefit of his 1950 visit to Japan, Noguchi replied, “Good friends.” That may sounds facile, but in the context of postwar Japanese-American relations and Noguchi’s own history, his answer resonates.
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