Akari UF4-L8 Washi Paper Floor Lamp Japanese Design Assembly takes about five minutes

Assembly takes about five minutes with no tools — unfold the shade along its ribs

Assembly takes a few minutes with no tools — unfold the shade

Lift the seat panel and the chair unfolds along the three-disc hinge in a single motion

Do they stack flat against a wall

and have made Jeanneret's V-leg silhouette one of the most recognized icons of Indian Modernism

Akari UF4-L8 Washi Paper Floor Lamp Japanese Design Assembly takes about five minutesDesigned in the spirit of Isamu Noguchi's Akari light sculptures, the UF4 L8 is the most sculptural floor lamp in the family a faceted washi paper totem that rises over six feet, its diamond panels folding in and out like origami as the column climbs from four slender black steel legs. Lit, it reads less like a lamp than a standing column of warm geometry. At a Glance Designer: after Isamu Noguchi's Akari light sculpture series, begun in 1951 Form: a