Some forty years after Noguchi submitted his first proposal for a space devoted to play, Noguchi was offered his first commission for a playground in the United States, in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. During the previous decade, Noguchi had created models for his own variations on more traditional play equipment (although the swing dated back to 1940), and this commission from the High Museum gave him the opportunity to put some of them into practice, alongside a dome-like mound for climbing.