The palace is decorated with playful sculptures of peacocks and elephants, ceramic tiles and delicate eggshell stucco work that gave portions of the walls a gleaming lacquered quality.

Starting out as a writer and painter, Ben-Zion (1897-1987) began making mostly small, playful sculptures of weathered scrap and "found" iron in 1959.

It's hard to dislike these smart playful sculptures, with their populist leanings and cute squirmy forms, but it is not altogether impossible.

Here you are likely to see children playing soccer, dog walkers, a juggler practicing his throws, and all of this watched over by Jean Dubuffet's huge, playful sculpture "Tour aux Figures."

The inspiration for the cool white walls and playful sculpture was the Glasgow apartment of Kenneth McCullough, a 40-year-old hotelier, restaurateur and shopkeeper.

It was from Tom Friedman, one of his star artists, known for devilishly playful sculptures made of everyday detritus.

The following year, they purchased a simple Dutch colonial farmhouse on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, recognizable by the playful, multicolored sculpture on the front lawn.

If you ask him to identify a playful sculpture of a mustached fellow cradling the building in his arms, Mr. Conrad hazards a guess that it is President Wilson.

The playful Romanesque architectural sculpture that adorns the building was created by Corrado Parducci.

The park in front of its 7 World Trade Center tower was designed by Ken Smith Landscape Architect, with a playful nine-foot-high sculpture by Jeff Koons.