The owner of this West Village, New York, loft had a significant collection of French modernist furniture, but O'Brien mixed in other classics to make the space feel like a home rather than a museum. He paired the Jean Prouve dining table, an important piece in the collection, with Eames chairs and a Noguchi lamp, American classics from the same time period. The mix of textures and materials — wood, fiberglass, paper — gives this room life.
In addition to floor and table lamps, Noguchi also looked overhead to ceiling lights. This large hanging lantern (Ceiling Lamp Model L3) stands up to the scale of a high ceiling.