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Lot 173
ISAMU NOGUCHI (1904-1989)
A 'RADIO NURSE' SPEAKER, 1937
Closed14 June 2012
Price Realised
USD 7,500
More Information
Specialist note
cf. I. Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World, New York, 1968, p. 184, pl. 185.
The 'Radio Nurse' was to be sculptor Isamu Noguchi's first design for industrial production, invoking the solemnity of a Kendo warrior's mask and acknowledging the sculptor's Japanese heritage. Created as a sculptural form to be sited in a living room, the speaker was to be accompanied by a transmitter that would have been located in an infant's room, and was one of several sophisticated domestic security products created in the wake of the Lindbergh kidnapping, 1932.
The 'Radio Nurse' was to be sculptor Isamu Noguchi's first design for industrial production, invoking the solemnity of a Kendo warrior's mask and acknowledging the sculptor's Japanese heritage. Created as a sculptural form to be sited in a living room, the speaker was to be accompanied by a transmitter that would have been located in an infant's room, and was one of several sophisticated domestic security products created in the wake of the Lindbergh kidnapping, 1932.