Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”

Although Isamu Noguchi declared in 1949, “I am not a designer,” the internationally acclaimed artist regularly engaged with the space-shaping possibilities of design, imagining and producing work in architecture, industrial design, ceramics, furniture, lighting, stage sets, and landscape design. In spring 2026, the High will debut the artist’s first design retrospective in nearly twenty-five years, featuring nearly two hundred objects, many never or rarely exhibited, spanning all facets of his c