Drawing, Design for Rocking Stool

Isamu Noguchi

ca. 1955

graphite on yellow ruled paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sketches for fabrication of Rocking Stool. Sheet is titled and signed at top and divided centrally into quadrants. Clockwise from top left: 1) a ring with overhanging lines converging on a central point, and an elevation of the stool with notations. 2) representation of a welded fastening edge, and a rectilinear form segmented into three triangles, with the outermost two shaded, a circle surrounding the whole. 3) A prism-like figure and a sketch of the plastic welding that will be featured in the stool. 4) Elevation of the stool, seen somewhat from above so that the full circumference of the top and bottom are apparent. Notes surrou