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Mid-Century Design  /  August 3, 2021

Noguchi Coffee Tables & Where to Find Replicas

Isamu Noguchi was an accomplished mid-century modern furniture designer with a career that spanned decades. He began as a landscape architect, artist, and sometimes set designer for production companies. An apprenticeship with artist and sculptor Constantin Brancusi helped him hone in on his craft.

He began to create sculptures out of just about any raw material he found from stone to metal, wood, bones, paper, and clay. 

In 1942, Noguchi began working with Herman Miller and Charles Eames to create practical furniture that would usher in the modernist design of the mid-20th century.

Noguchi Coffee Tables

Noguchi’s most famous design was a striking wood leg coffee table with a glass top, designed in 1948. The Noguchi Table, as it’s often referred to, was the fruit of this collaboration. It remains a revered coffee table design even today in many mid-century modern furniture collections.

“Everything is sculpture.”

Isamu Noguchi

An authentic Noguchi Table can be purchased from Design Within Reach. It is described as a sculptural masterpiece that offers the perfect balance between art and function. The design is certainly eye-catching with an interlocking wood base and thick glass top.

Authentic Noguchi Coffee Table DWR

Noguchi Coffee Table Replicas

If you aren’t ready to plunk down a couple thousand dollars on a coffee table, then these Noguchi coffee table replicas will certainly interest you. For just a fraction of the DWR price, you can get your own affordable Noguchi table replica or alternative.

How to Decorate a Noguchi Coffee Table

The key to decorating a living room with a Noguchi coffee table is to keep the objects on top to a minimum. Here are a few great Noguchi table decorating ideas to copy from Instagram!

Noguchi Coffee Table via @fakerstrom
@fakerstrom
Noguchi Coffee Table Sabina Socol
@SabinaSocol

What are your thoughts on Noguchi coffee tables?

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  • Coffee Tables
  • iconic
  • Living Room Furniture
  • Mid-Century
  • Mid-Century Furniture
  • Tables

1 comment

  • Ellen
    May 4, 2022

    I grew up in the ’60s with what I now know is a Noguchi-style coffee table. While having the legs refinished and researching the original table, I’ve learned that mine is an anomaly – my table has three bronze “medallions” each about 1-1/2″ diameter that screw onto a small peg at the top of each leg, basically holding the glass on to the leg. I am missing one of the three. Other than these bronze pieces (each is heavy), the table looks identical to the original. Does anyone know who made this table or where I could find a replacement medallion?

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