Furniture by designer Robert Stadler has gone on display alongside sculptures by Isamu Noguchi at the museum dedicated to the late Japanese-American artist's work in Queens, New York.
The Noguchi Museum is hosting the exhibition titled Solid Doubts, which opened yesterday, and encourages visitors to find relationships and draw comparisons between Stadler and Noguchi's work.

"The exhibition will explore the ways in which both Robert Stadler and Isamu Noguchi probe ? and sometimes undermine ? the nature of and distinctions between 'art' and 'design', 'functional' and 'aesthetic', and 'material' and 'space', among other object-based concepts," said the museum.
Stadler's pieces, which sit somewhere between design and art, are split across four installations in the ground-floor galleries of the museum ? founded and designed by Noguchi inside a 1920s industrial building in Long Island City.
Noguchi Museum senior curator Dakin Hart worked closely with the Paris-based Austrian designer to match up items from the museum's archive and Stadler's oeuvre to date.
"Robert Stadler works the fertile land where conceptual, aesthetic, functional, and material considerations meet," said Hart. "This is the same zone that Noguchi explored and laboured so hard to expand during his six decades as a category-defier."

The first of the installations pairs a table, a mirror and a bench from Stadler's 2015 PDT (Pierre De Taille) collection with three whitewashed plywoo...