He was
born in 1904
Born in Los Angeles, trained as a cabinetmaker in Japan
He
assisted Constantin Brancusi in his Paris atelier. His visionary
set and costume designs for the New York City Ballet and the
Martha Graham Company transposed mythological elements into
abstract form to great effect. Noguchi developed products for
Zenith, Steuben Glassworks and Vitra. In the 1980s, a museum
of his work was established in Long Island City, New York.
