Akari 45A is a pendant lamp by Vitra designed by Japanese-American Isamu Noguchi in 1951. The lamp is suspended with a structure of steel and is handmade of shoji paper, paper made from the bark of mulberry trees.Akari 45A is part of the Akari lamp range, a range of lamps designed by Noguchi and handmade by Japanese craftsmen. Noguchi's work is artistically linked to abstract expressionism, and his design idiom came to have a great influence on 1950s design.All the light sculptures in the Akari range are marked with a logo representing the sun and moon, reinforcing the authenticity of each product.