238 - July 1949
Particolare della "Macchina Infernale", J. Cocteau (scene di R. Ricas, tessuti di F. Cheti)
299 - October 1954
Tessuto di lino stampato della manifattura ISA, disegno di Margherita Patocchi (studio Ponti)
10 - October 1928
L'uva della terra promessa, porcellana di Richard-Ginori modellata da Italo Griselli
89 - May 1935
Caminetto in Xantal (bronzo d'alluminio) disegnato da Gio Ponti per Battaglia di Milano
262 - October 1951
Piscina della villa T. a Monza, arch. Minoletti; scultura subacquea di Antonia Tomasini
628 - May 1982
Il cibo politico, esterno del World Trade Center di MilanoFiori di Martinoja e Piano, poltrone "Wave" di Offredi per Saporiti
660 - April 1985
A Bureau in William and Mary Style, progetto di Robert Venturi alla mostra "Le affinità elettive", 17° Triennale di Milano
554 - January 1976
Due manifesti: mostra "Constructa 74" di Hundertwasser e Schultz; XV Salone del Mobile di Milano della Cassina
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.
541 - December 1974
Carte da gioco giapponesi per il gioco "Honafuda", esposte alla mostra "Un po' di giappone a Milano" presso la Ar-flex
267 - February 1952
Casa a Milano, arch. M. Zanuso; rivestimento della facciata in mosaico "Fulget" su disegno di G. Dova
1011 - March 2017
elaborazione grafica di uno schizzo di progetto di Peter Salter
per il complesso residenziale Walmer Yard di Londra.
