"Akari" (あかり) means both light and lightness in Japanese — a single word for both the glow a lamp gives and the weightlessness a great paper shade seems to defy gravity with, a vocabulary Isamu Noguchi borrowed in 1951 when he first lit a piece of handmade Gifu washi paper stretched over bamboo ribs and realized he had made something between a lantern and a sculpture. Our Akari collection gathers 30 pieces in the Noguchi tradition: Akari pendant lamps, Akari plug-in pendant lights, Akari table lamps, Akari floor lamps, Washi paper pendant lights, rice paper lanterns, bamboo-framed paper lamps, Japandi pendant fixtures, Noguchi-style sculptural floor lamps, and minimalist zen lighting — each lantern shaped, folded, and hand-finished in the Gifu-paper tradition that's been lighting Japanese homes for thirteen centuries.
