Monica Obniski, curator of decorative arts and design at the High Museum of Art, offers an insider’s perspective on iconic lighting drawn from her current work and personal collection. “I would be remiss not to mention the iconic Akari by Isamu Noguchi, especially as I am currently working on a Noguchi project,” she says. “I really like the casual nature of the small ‘table’ lamps—that can be used on the floor, as he had staged them during his lifetime—to the monumental circular orb shapes that consume a room, all of which present soft light through paper as a sensitive (and simple) treatment to interior lighting.
A version of this article originally appeared in “Curator’s Icons” in Sixtysix Issue 13.
