Among Isamu Noguchi's earliest abstract sculptures are works of highly polished sheets of brass, made in Paris in 1927-28 following his apprenticeship with Constantin Brancusi. Noguchi again used sheet metal on returning to New York in 1958 after completing his garden at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, viewing aluminum as a representative American material. In the factory of lighting designer Edison Price, Noguchi created sculptures from single sheets of folded metal, a kind of modernist origami.
