Trylon and Perisphere, 1938

Wallace K. Harrison, Jacques André Fouilhoux, Harrison & Fouilhoux
Stainless steel, plastic, and wood.
Inches 36-1/4 x 31
The Wolfsonian–FIU

About the Object

×

About

The 1939 New York World’s Fair imagined the “World of Tomorrow” packed with technologically advanced consumer products and daring architecture. The Trylon and Perisphere, the fair’s centerpieces and its logo, captured this optimistic spirit. To promote the fair, 49 stainless-steel models of the structures were produced and mounted atop General Motors limousines that toured the country.

×

View in your space

Scan this code with your phone camera to view the object in AR.

QR Code