“In 1952 I had designed a sculpture of contoured louvers (indicating the geological place of minerals), for a bank wall in Texas. The design was not used but Robert Carson had kept the model. Five years later he told me he was going to adapt the design for an elevator lobby ceiling and asked me if I would be interested in doing a waterfall wall to go with it... A precise model permitted templates to be taken and executed directly in aluminum and stainless steel. The ceiling became a landscape of the clouds.” –Isamu Noguchi

Submitted by Erika Mosier, Paper Conservator, The David Booth Conservation Department