This is a scarf printed with a textile designed by Isamu Noguchi in the 1950s. It was created in 2007 by silk wave designs and was sold exclusively at the Noguchi Museum. I have been collecting the artist's works for many years, but I have only seen this piece once at the time of purchase, and it is now a very rare item that cannot be purchased. 44 cm in length, 106 cm in width. The material is 100% silk and the colors are very vibrant. It was introduced as a "phantom textile" in a special issue of Casa Brutus. The following is an excerpt: "Is there a textile? It doesn't exist now, but it was indeed a fact. Isamu Noguchi designed it, a curtain. It was completed in 1954 and adorned the stage of the Shibuya Tokyu Hall. Noguchi was consulted by Jinbei Kawashima, the president of an investment company in Kyoto and a friend. He had worked on stage sets for Martha Graham, but it was at this time that he learned about the use and role of curtains unique to Japanese theaters. "A curtain is extremely simple, and it must be a stage set that makes you feel something," he thought, and he created six designs using washi paper and chiyogami. All of them have a Japanese atmosphere, and are modern and simple. He ordered that he wanted to make a rough fabric using natural materials. He probably wanted to express Japan in that way." I was going to frame it, so I asked the Tokyo cleaning shop Rejuir to store it so that the iron marks would not remain as much as possible. I opened it for photography this time. The book is not included. Thank you for your consideration. #IsamuNoguchi #casabrutus #isamunoguchi #akari