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My resolution the past couple years has been to write more letters. This year I'm going to actually mail them. Chad got me a nice box of FRUiTS postcards to add to my archive of stationery.
Send me your address if you'd like to receive one.
Note: US$ postage goes up on Sunday.
It is really hard to take a photo of the Noguchi garden that gives a true sense of the space. But in this one you get a sense of the scale of some of the elements
sculpture: History Mexico.
artist: Isamu Noguchi.
date: 1936.
materials: colored cement over sculpted brick base.
Archival photograph.
Isamu Noguchi, Gate, 1969.
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Black / Orange version. Colours of the sculpture are changed every three years. (Black/Yellow, Black/Orange, Black/Blue).
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.
www.som.com/content.cfm/gordon_bunshaft_interview_on_bein...
Hard to say if this is the "front" of the house, but this is where the main door is. Since John D Rockefeller Sr was a devout Baptist the house does not have many large formal spaces for entertaining. The front entrance opens to a small vestibule and then a narrow hallway. The house itself isn't all that big or ostentatious, but the gardens are.
A conical fountain in the distance.
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.
The Garden (Pyramid, Sun, and Cube) (1963), by Isamu Noguchi.
During a lettering tour of Yale University with Paul Shaw and Reed Reibstein; New Haven, Connecticut
A grassy slope surrounded by redwood trees. They are about 50' tall but see small in relation to the buildings.
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.
Scarf (Reproduction of a stage curtain design proposed around 1953)
Sold simultaneously by the Noguchi Museum, NY.
Limited edition(125 scarves)
Material:100% silk
Scarf size:h.430, w.1,090mm
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.
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.
www.som.com/content.cfm/gordon_bunshaft_interview_on_bein...