126 - June 1938
Servizio da tavola di Richard-Ginori in terraglia dolce decorato a pennello, posate di Krupp
286 - September 1953
Il padiglione della moda nel parco del castello di Stupinigi (copertura in tela "Olona" della Eliotona, struttura tubolare ditta Marzoli), studio B.P.R.
532 - March 1974
R. Meier & Associati, Olivetti Building a Tarrytown; F.T. Marinetti, "Une assemblée tumultueuse"; S. Asti, tv "Pally" della Brionvega
1044 - March 2020
In October 2017, on the Otay Mesa, a barren patch of land near San Diego, President Donald Trump unveiled eight prototype sections of free-standing wall. These were designed to be tested along the US-Mexican border, the fortification of which was a pillar of Trump’s election campaign. While a border wall is widely seen as an ineffective, symbolic solution to what conservatives consider to be the United States’ immigration problem, these prototypes represented Trump’s determination to follow through on the promises that got him elected. Built at a cost of 3.3 million dollars in federal funds, the competing prototypes [later dismantled, see photo], if commissioned, would constitute a monumental contract for the winning company. The prototype chosen for this issue’s cover by Thomas Demand was produced by Elta North America, a defence manufacturer based in Maryland and owned by Israel Aerospace Industries. The flow of capital and military resources between the US and Israel lends this prototype a further layer of symbolism – urging a loaded comparison with the defence of Israel’s borders against states which threaten its very existence. Trump – a real estate developer and a social climber – has built a fortune on the design and sale of aspirational structures. In October 2018, he described his intended wall as “artistically designed steel slats”; Demand observes that Elta’s design mirrors the Renaissance convention of the piano nobile sitting above the humbler ground floor. All the prototypes turned out to be far from impregnable, so, as with many of Demand’s subjects, these models were impossible fantasies.
627 - April 1982
Mussolini's bath-room, interno con chaise-longue "Genni" di Mucchi, portaoggetti "Chichibio" di Levi-Montalcini e Pagano, sedia-scagno "Follia" e poltrona "Benita" di Terragni per Zanotta
107 - November 1936
Rivestimento di facciata con elementi a punta di diamante in Cottonovo, arch. Gio Ponti
731 - October 1991
Opera di Katharina Fritsch esposta al Museo d'Arte Moderna di Francoforte sul Meno
454 - September 1967
Piatto per servizio da tavola della Ceramica Franco Pozzi, disegno di Gio Ponti
291 - February 1954
Progetto di rivestimento della piscina del roof-Garden dell'Hotel Royal di Napoli, Gio Ponti