Black floor sculpture, with two rectangular elements which appear to emerge from below the surface
On View   Original Collection

Floor Frame

1962 (cast 1963)
Black patina, Bronze
Thinking of the floor, I made Floor Frame. I made many other pieces in relation to floor space at that time, but this seemed to best define the essentiality of floor, not as sculpture alone but as part of the concept of floor.
Original Noguchi Collection
Quotations by Isamu Noguchi from The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), unless otherwise noted.