Cyclone Dining Table

Overview

The Cyclone Dining Table is Isamu Noguchi's full-size version of his Cyclone table: a birch plywood top with a laminate or veneer surface, a column of chrome-plated steel wires and a cast-iron base with a black textured powder coat finish. Knoll gives 1957 for the dining table and offers it in two sizes, 36 in and 42 in.

Construction

• Top: birch plywood with laminate or veneer surface and a natural birch edge
• Column: chrome-plated steel wire
• Base: cast iron, black textured powder coat
• KnollStudio logo and Noguchi's signature stamped under the top

Specifications

• 36 in table: W 36 x D 36 x H 28 in (914 x 914 x 711 mm), model 311
• 42 in table: W 42 x D 42 x H 28 in, model 312

From a rocking stool

Noguchi recalls that in 1954 he did a rocking stool that Hans Knoll liked, and that Knoll wanted it in wire, like Bertoia's. Knoll then asked him to adapt it to a table; the dining table followed in 1957.

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Out of production and back

Knoll sold the Cyclone alongside the Bertoia wire chairs for several years, took it out of production in 1974 and reintroduced it in 2003, working from Noguchi's original drawings together with the Noguchi Foundation.