New York, Nivola's little horses will return to Wise Towers gardens

It had reached the Regional Council Chamber the case that had broken out in Sardinia around Costantino Nivola’s little horses that had formed a playground for children in the gardens of Wise Towers in New York since 1964. A month ago the Nivola Museum in Orani (Nuoro) had learned that Nivola’s largest public project in New York had been destroyed due to a renovation project in the area: the little horses had been removed and partly destroyed.

It had emerged from the Regional Council that Sardinia would immediately seek to stop the removal of the leapfrogs and recover them. “If the city of New York doesn’t need them, then give them back to us,” so they had commented.

A new videoconference meeting between Carl Stein, a member of the Nivola Foundation’s scientific committee, and Alex Hart, a representative of the Pact Reinassance Collaborative, the firm contracted to do the work on the playground, resulted in the agreement that will return Costantino Nivola’s little horses to their original home at Wise Towers, where they have remained all these years.

“The Nivola Foundation looks forward to a solution that maintains the character of the original design,” said architect Carl Stein, the son of designer Richard Stein. “A state-of-the-art realization in the field of public art projects while allowing it to be updated to modern standards.”

Indeed, in the area, along with Nivola’s little horses, more modern playground equipment will also find its place.

Ph.Credit Nivola Museum

New York, Nivola's little horses will return to Wise Towers gardens

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