# @whitecube on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddi7pLXDP7f
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70853221-whitecube-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-21T10:20:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** White Cube (@whitecube) — https://gondola.cc/whitecube

## Caption

In Focus: Isamu Noguchi’s ​sculptures for play, as featured at Lever House in New York⁠
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Expanding beyond sculpture, ‘Isamu Noguchi at Lever House’ highlights Noguchi’s prolific and multifaceted practice. Noguchi approached sculpture as an expansive discipline that encompassed furniture​ and lighting designs​, playgrounds, stage sets​,​ ​​landscapes, ​and gardens.⁠
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The sculptures ‘Octetra’ (1965) and ‘Play Sculpture’ (c. 1965–80) are on view in the building’s courtyards, functioning simultaneously as abstract sculpture and children’s play equipment. ⁠
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📍 ‘Isamu Noguchi at Lever House’ is on view until 31 August 2027 at Lever House, New York. ⁠
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🔗 Click the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition. ⁠
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#IsamuNoguchi #GordonBunshaft bgreinc noguchimuseum ⁠
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Images: ⁠
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(1, 5, 6): Installation view, ‘Isamu Noguchi at Lever House’, Lever House, New York, 2026. Photo: Timothy Schenck. (2): Isamu Noguchi (design), Shoji Sadao (architect), Play equipment at Moerenuma Koen, Sapporo, Japan, 1988–2004. (3): Installation of Octetra at Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan, 1969. The Noguchi Museum Archives, 146104. (4): ‘Play Sculpture’ (c.1965-80). Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis). (7): Isamu Noguchi, ‘Octetra’ (1965). Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis). (8–9): Isamu Noguchi working on a model for Riverside Park Playground with a boy, 1961. The Noguchi Museum Archives, 06284. ⁠
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All artworks by Isamu Noguchi © INFGM / ARS.

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