PROVENANCE FOR THE SOFA
Private collection, Boston
Skinner Auctioneers, Boston, "Art Glass & Lamps, Arts & Crafts, Art Deco & Modern," October 19 1996, lot 918
Private collection, Florida
Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, "20-21st Century Design Art," May 22, 2002, lot 73
Acquired from the above by the present owner
PROVENANCE FOR THE OTTOMAN
Doyle, New York, "Doyle at Home: Fine Furniture, Decorations and Paintings," October 8, 2003, lot 151
Acquired from the above by the present owner
"In the Showrooms, Report on an Improved Situation: The New Furniture," Interiors, March 1949, pp. 130-31
"Free form for Furniture", Architectural Forum, April 1949, p. 212
Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924–1979: A Catalogue, New York, 1980, p. 147, cat. no. 811
Cara Greenberg, Mid-Century Modern, New York, 1984, p. 67 for the sofa
Lisa Phillips and David Hanks, High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design, New York, 1985, pp. 152-53
George Nelson, ed., The 20th Century: Landmarks in Design, Chairs, New York, 1994, p. 33, 152-153
Franz Schulze, Building a Masterpiece, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, New York, 2001, p. 147
Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., Isamu Noguchi, Sculptural Design, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2001, pp. 122-123, 125
Ghislane Wood, Surreal Things, Surrealism and Design, London, 2007, p. 99