Like Nothing Else In Tennessee, Serpentine Gallery, 1992

Wood, glass, lacquer

160 x 500 x 18cm

Ivrea is the name of the town near Turin in northern Italy where Olivetti has based it’s operations, and attempted to provide for the needs of it’s work force and their families, since 1907. Ivrea might prompt us to ask: what it is we want from our buildings - and also what they want from us?