..." Legend dictates that Hans Knoll saw the lamp and enquired about the possibility of producing it commercially, Noguchi agreed, and in 1947 Knoll Associates released the Model 9 Table Lamp by Isamu Noguchi... Adapted for industrial production the three stabs of the Knoll lamp are much simpler, devoid of the rounded end pieces of the 1943/44 original, and the PVC shade is reinforced with fibreglass to increase its durability, but perhaps the most important change is the size: the original version for Ailes stood some 93 cm high, and thus an object intended to be stood on the floor as an independent part of a room's scenography, the Knoll version at just 40 cm is/was very much, as the name implies, a table lamp...