Vitra Akari 9AD Floor Light Thomas Bentzen more than 70 years later

more than 70 years later

Vitra Mariposa Ottoman Large - Award winning sofa/armchair from designers Barber & Osgerby

The seat and back can be upholstered in fabric

Whether as side-tables or as stools

Wegner also created a blueprint for transforming the lounge chair into a dining chair - a design that has never been manufactured and was evidently not even produced as a mockup

Vitra Akari 9AD Floor Light Thomas Bentzen more than 70 years laterIn 1951, American Japanese artist and designer Isamu Noguchi started to design the Akari Light Sculptures. A total of over 100 hand made Shoji paper models for table lights, standard lamps or ceiling luminaries were created. For the name of this lighting series he chose the word "akari", the Japanese terms for brightness and light, and also lightness. "The light of Akari is like the light of the sun filtered through the paper of shoji. The harshness