Noguchi Table Sells for $2.9 Million, Eames Sculpture Fetches Record $459K

It’s a table! It’s a sculpture! Stop, you’re both right. A fossil marble table by Isamu Noguchi sold yesterday at Christie’s in New York for a stunning $2.88 million (including commission), a new world auction record for a piece of furniture by the artist and the third highest price ever achieved at auction for a Noguchi work. The low table was made in 1948-49 for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Dretzin to furnish their new Sydney Katz-designed summer home in Chappaqua, New York, and remained in the family until yesterday.