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New for 2016 - a series of ‘Art at the Palais’ posts which will spotlight the unique and historic pieces of art at our home the Palais des Nations - and how they reflect the global aims of the United Nations Charter.

First is a sculpture called “The Blue Planet of Human Life”.

This dreamy blue and white globe was gifted to UN Geneva by Japan, and is located in front of the Council Chamber, where the Conference on Disarmament carries out its work to banish nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction from the world forever.

The plaque on the sculpture reads: “A porcelain globe designed and produced in the Tobe style with a prayer to safeguard peace on earth and the irreplaceable Earth of Humankind. 

By Yasuhiko Shirakata, Ceramic Artist, Tobe-cho, Ehime-ken, Japan. October 1995”