This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

You may have seen a nagucci table.

Actually, I know you've seen it.

It's like the coffee table.

In movies or TV shows when they want to show that a lawyer or an art dealer is really sophisticated,

they put a naguchi table in their waiting room.

And it is really a beautiful table.

Two curvy wooden legs interlock and support this heavy slab of glass

which seems like it's almost floating above them. That's reporter Jackson Roach.

Since the Naguchi Copy table was introduced in 1948,

it's become one of the emblems of mid-century industrial design.

It has its own Wikipedia page,

and there's a thriving Instagram hashtag

hashtag, hashtag FYNCT which stands for

fuck your naguchi coffee table which basically means fuck your

boosy cliche interiors.

Which is ironic because like all eventual cliches,

Nougchi himself was quite avant-garde.

Nougci was a prodigy, a sculpting prodigy.

Isamu Niguchi was a sculptor and he was so much more than that.

Choreographers and fashion designers and art directors and you know a whole lot and as a point of inspiration. This is Daken Hart, senior curator of the Isamu Nagucci Foundation and Garden Museum.

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