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The Alternative Tables Collection Offers Timeless Design  and Versatility. Sculptures-Jeux is the editing company of the French designer Bernard Vuarnesson, settled in Paris.  Sculptures-jeux creates 2 collections : Educational Objects and Contemporary Furniture. Alternative Collection - tables that expand for extra place settings, contract for space-savings and serve as either coffee tables or dining room tables - are a huge success with Europeans as well as Japanese who want versatile and refined home furnishings.
 
Closed or extented, Alternative Tables make beautiful additions to any room. Bernard Vuarnesson, the French collection&rsquos designer, has won awards in France, Germany, Italy, Canada and USA.Designed in France and made in Italy from the finest Beechwood, Cherry wood or African Iroko wood, Alternative tables combine the quality of European craftsmanship and the versatility of contemporary design.
 

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Polo is one of the wonderful design creations that you may admire entering this online boutique. Let's disclose the heart of this elegant site, by blue and gold colours, where you will only find original creations carefully chosen among the best designers' works. Italy Dream Design uses the best Italian producers, who use excellent materials and experienced craftsmen.

The collection includes surprising tables and coffee tables that mix together practicality and a sophisticated and refined aesthetics, but you may also find sofas, chairs, office furniture, Murano glass lamps and artistic complements. The articles are presented in great detail to offer you excellent vision and are made upon request and then customizable according to any needs.

Created for those who get the perception of the infinite, our products are adaptable in any environment and will enrich your interiors with harmonious lights, shapes and colours.
Originality is unique and then timeless. Below you can admire Wind, which is a curved glass coffee table original and swivel. The last picture includes Venezia, born from the union of very different materials such as glass, wood and metal. At its center, an original and luxurious inlay decorated with Murano glass.

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Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is a Japanese American sculptor, a universal talent who has experienced life and work in the United States, Europe and Asia. Isamu Noguchi is famous for his sculptures and also for the playgrounds, plazas and gardens that he designed. He also created stage sets (Martha Graham), lighting (Araki paper lights) and furniture pieces. Among his furniture work was his collaboration with the Herman Miller company in 1948 when Isamu Noguchi joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture.
Other notable commissions include the gardens for the UNESCO Building in Paris, several fountains for the Supreme Court Building in Tokyo and a high-relief for the Abelardo Rodriguez Market in Mexico City.
Isamu Noguchi's creations all display the biomorphic imagery of his contemporary sculpture.
Signs of an international recognition, Isamu Noguchi has a museum in New York City dedicated to his works and he received several awards and prizes such as the followings ones :
Gold Medal, American Institute of Arts and Letters, 1977
Brandeis Creative Arts Award, 1966
New York Architectural League Gold Medal, 1965
First Prize (Logan Medal), 63rd Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, 1959
Guggenheim Memorial Fund Fellowship, 1927

 

Coffee Table, 1944 - Vitra



Dining Table, 1954 - Vitra



Prismatic Table, 1957 - Vitra