# Akari Returns the Warmth of the Sun to Rooms at Night by Isamu Noguchi > “The light of Akari is like the light of the sun filtered through the paper of shoji. The harshness of electricity is thus transformed through the magic of paper back to the light of our origin - the sun - so that its warmth may continue to fill our rooms at night.” > **— Isamu Noguchi**, *On the Akari light sculptures, Vitra Design Museum collection* ## Sources and Context - **Direct authoritative text:** [Akari 1N by Isamu Noguchi — Vitra, on Stylepark](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/akari-1n) — Vitra’s product text, credited to the Collection Vitra Design Museum, quotes the full passage as Noguchi’s description of the Akari series, the more than one hundred hand-made shoji-paper table lights, floor lamps, and ceiling luminaires he designed and named with the Japanese word for light. - **Wording note:** The poster preserves the source’s spaced hyphens around “the sun.” No original publication date or page locator was available. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Collection]] - **American route:** [[american/American Aesthetic - Interior Design and Space Composition|Interior Design and Space Composition]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Mid-Century Design Grammar|Mid-Century Design Grammar]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The light of Akari is like the light of the sun filtered through the paper of shoji. The harshness of electricity is thus transformed through the magic of paper back to the light of our origin - the sun - so that its warmth may continue to fill our rooms at night.” — Isamu Noguchi, On the Akari light sculptures, Vitra Design Museum collection https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-isamu-noguchi-akari-light-sun ```