Atco unveils sculpture garden.Atco Properties recently unveileda new viewing and sculpture garden A sculpture garden is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently-sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings. , located in the interior courtyard of their two midtown residential buildings, 40 Central Park South and 41 West 58th Street. The new viewing garden is the creation of landscape architect Ken Smith and features a sculpture collection that includes a cast steel Isamu Noguchi torso titled "Man Aviator" from the late 1940's, a mid-century cast copper by Chaim Gross and--recently commissioned for the new garden--a large bronze by Michele Oka Doner. The garden is designed for viewing from a window-lined central hallway and rotunda rotunda In Classical and Neoclassical architecture, a building or room that is circular in plan and covered with a dome. The Pantheon is a Classical Roman rotunda. The Villa Rotonda at Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, is an Italian Renaissance example. space, as well as from the apartments surrounding and looking down on the garden. The ground plan is designed as a parterre parterre Division of garden beds in an ornamental pattern. The parterre grew out of the knot garden, a medieval form of bed in which various plant types were separated from each other by hedges. of planted ground covers, crushed white marble, recycled black rubber and blue marbles which are under-lit, giving the garden a nighttime glow and sense of water. Michele Oka Doner's bronze, "Guardian II," is within the crushed white marble and is a focal point focal point n. See focus. of the new garden. Her gilded gild 1 tr.v. gild·ed or gilt , gild·ing, gilds 1. To cover with or as if with a thin layer of gold. 2. To give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to. 3. sculpture is a winged palm figure, based conceptually on The Winged Victory of Samothrace, and is intended to be evocative of the Biblical Tree of Life. "Dale and Elizabeth Hemmerdinger continue the great tradition of private patronage for magical gardens secreted in the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of our city," said Oka Doner. The new garden represents a culmination of 60 years of work by the Hemmerdinger family, owners of Atco Properties and Management. The Gross and Noguchi sculptures were acquired and installed by Carol Haussman, Dale Hemmerdinger's mother, beginning in the late 1940s. |
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