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SIx-Foot Energy Void (1971-85) by Isamu Noguchi.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City, Missouri.
The view from the driveway entrance. The fountain statue is of great rivers of the world. Kykuit - the word is Dutch for "lookout" - is perfectly sited and landscaped to maximize views like this. The dropoff behind the fountain is less steep than it looks, and the house is actually surrouned by a golf course which you can not see. The fountain is on the far left of the picture:
The entrance to the Associated Press Building at Rockefeller Center, August 1975. The sculpture over the doors is called, "News," by Isamu Noguchi. AP moved out of this building in 2004.
A RARE CHESS TABLE, 1944
manufactured by Herman Miller, ebonized birch plywood, lacquer and inlaid acrylic, aluminum and ebonized plywood with rotating table top
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high, 33½ in. (85.4 cm.) square
Earlier this summer I was fortunate to take a pinhole photo of Mayor Mufi Hannemann during a Lāhainā Noon. More info on the photograph can be found here.
I recently mailed him a print and also asked him to autograph a 2nd. This is the autographed print! I guess I'll need to start up a new Flickr group for "pinhole autographs"! :)
Mr. Hannemann has just resigned as Mayor of Honolulu in his race for governorship. Best of luck, Mufi!
Nelson Rockefeller converted the hallway beneath the linden tree allee (lined with Guastavino tiles no less) into a mini modern art museum. At the end of the hallway is his room of custom made Picasso tapestries. Nelson loved tapestries, and he loved Picassos, so he commissioned a weaver to make super-sized tapestries of several Picasso paintings, like Guernica. You know you have money to spare when you are commissioning one of the greatest living artists to create giant works in a medium in which he does not work for your own personal enjoyment.
Designed by Louis Kahn. Hold's the university's collection of non-British art. Notice the famous tetrahedral ceiling. The black painting is an Ad Reinhardt. My camera couldn't pick up the different shades of black, but it was quite profound.
Pic of Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube.
In lower Manhattan.
I decided to take a picture, not of the cube itself but of the cylindrical hole that runs upward through its center, gives another perspective and you can see the different textures in it and also see the texture of the windows of the building standing behind the cube. #isamunoguchi #isamunoguchiredcube #redcube #popofcolor #diagonallines #sculpture #lowermanhattan #sun #rollingofdice #squareandsolarradiance #ilovetakingpic… See More
You can see some Maillols in the garden. Nelson Rockefeller added modern art to the interior spaces and the garden, and I think they make for a nice tension between classical and new. The topiaries are unbelievably manicured.
Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The outside is cold and hard stone, but the translucent marble panels give a golden glow to the inside. Absolutely incredible. Its biggest problem is that it's at Yale.
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Designed by Louis Kahn. I liked the warmth of the wood against the concrete. The big concrete cylinder holds the building's main staircase.
Pierced Seat/Pierced Table (1982) by Isamu Noguchi
Hot-dipped galvanized steel
31" x 14" x 17" / 22 1/4" x 37" x 37"
Courtesy Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
The seemingly endless density of the foliage is an illusion. John D Rockefeller Sr had large, mature trees planted to create the perception that the house was sited on a wooded hill that stretched down to the river. In fact, the house is surrounded by a golf course. This shot is taken from the terrace on the left side of the house looking to the west (right).
In his ... gardens ... Noguchi achieved subtle ... syntheses of nature with the man-made, fusing organic and geometric, balancing intuition with intellect. 'California Scenario' seamlessly integrates them. ... it is an enclosed space adjacent to an office building, 'California Scenario' appears open and spacious; the proportional relationship of the asymmetric pyramid to the smaller rocks and plants creates a sense of vastness and scale beyond the actual dimensions of the garden. Local desert stones unify this environment in color and texture. The channel of water running through the center contrasts with, and enhances, the viewer's awareness of the surrounding dryness. The pronounced individuality of elements of the Beinecke courtyard has here matured into a cohesive whole; sculpture and environment are one.
From the catalogue 'Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor', by Valerie Fletcher, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
sketches from the Noguchi Museum in LIC
Left side: stone sculpture detail
Right side: playground plans - a swing set!
Isamu Noguchi, Gate, 1969.
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Black / Yellow version. Colours of the sculpture are changed every three years. (Black/Yellow, Black/Orange, Black/Blue).
New York City, 2006
Isamu Noguchi's 28-foot tall piece of public art in the plaza of the Marine Midland Bank building.
Here, it gets a bit of spin right at you, courtesy of some PS.
I've always loved Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube sculpture for some reason, maybe because of the way it tilts on an axis. It sits in the small plaza in front of the Helmsley Building at 140 Broadway in New York.
Installed in April 1968, Red Cube became a landmark overnight. An exterior shot of it can be seen in The April Fools - French actress Catherine Deneuve's first Hollywood movie - which came out in 1969, a year later.
The plaza was getting a power wash at the time I photographed the sculpture.
Isamu Noguchi was the son of Yonejiro Noguchi, a Japanese poet and scholar of English literature, and of Leonie Girmour, an American poet and writer. He was born in Los Angeles in 1904 and died in New York in 1988. He spent his childhood in Japan until the age of thirteen when his mother sent him to be educated in the United States. During his first year at Columbia University where he was a premed student, he dropped out and decided to pursue his interest in sculpture. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, studied in Paris with Brancusi, traveled through Europe and Asia and finally settled in New York in the late Twenties.