14 September 2026 – Summer 2027

This September, Lever House will present a year-long installation of work by Isamu Noguchi (1904–88) across the landmark modernist building at 390 Park Avenue, New York, designed by Gordon Bunshaft (1909–90) in 1952. The exhibition, ‘Isamu Noguchi at Lever House’, is presented in collaboration with White Cube, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, BGRE and WatermanCLARK.

Spanning the building’s courtyard, plaza and lobby, the presentation traces the creative dialogue between Noguchi and Bunshaft, focusing on their unrealised efforts to create a sculptural environment for the Lever House courtyard in 1951–52. The project crystallised ideas that would occupy Noguchi for decades: sculpture as landscape, public space as a place for contemplation and play, and the integration of natural materials within modern architecture.

Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of Lever House and Noguchi’s creation of the Akari light sculptures, ‘Isamu Noguchi at Lever House’ features sculptures, models, architectural drawings, and a special presentation of Akari, allowing visitors to reconsider this remarkable collaboration and the many ideas it inspired.