A recent house tour in Remodelista showed a cool, minimalist renovation of a 1940's summer cottage in Denmark. The hard angles and rectangles so common (and problematic) with a modern aesthetic were softened by huge, translucent paper spheres hung from the ceiling, pioneered by Isamu Noguchi in the 1950's. They've long been a favorite of ours because the are a simple way to add ethereal, sculptural rounds to an angular interior, and because there fine inexpensive knock-offs that will achieve the same look. Designers Paolo Soleri, Sam Maloof, Wharton Esherick, Ruth and Robert Hatch and George Nakashima all used the big globes to great effect; they are in many
