Streamline Design of the 1930s Art Moderne as a Consumer Product This is the story of two Budds, unrelated to one another but joined together historically in the design and development of a new train, sleek, light and fast, shaped like a speeding bullet. Until the...
A Century of Progress International Exposition The Streamlined World’s Fair Chicago 1933-34 With Mussolini occupied far away in Italy and the name of “Adolf Hitler” just a mention in a newspaper article, one was able to come to the Chicago...
Subverting Fascism Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 – 1973) Italian fashion between the Wars is a case study of how ineffectual Fascism was when it came to controlling women. Although the women of Italy are considered today to be much less liberated than their European...
Controlling Women In Italy Designing Submission, Part One Any authoritarian regime, of any age, regardless of location on the globe will move immediately to control the uncontrollable: women. The first step is always to take away as many of the pre-given rights...
The Melancholy Afterlife of Italian Fascist Architecture Funerary Architecture, Part Two If there is any consolation in losing a war that the Austro-Hungarian Empire started, it is that a resounding defeat wiped out the Empire, thus absolving all those involved in the...
The Melancholy Afterlife of Italian Fascist Architecture Funerary Architecture, Part One If the population of a nation is alert to warning signs–and usually we are oblivious to portents–it would be well to take notice when that nation begins to build...
