Some of the buildings from the 1939 Fair were used for the first temporary headquarters of the United Nations from 1946 until it moved in 1951 to its Perisphere during the earlier Fair.
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There, he worked on developing the spiky Trylon and rotund Perisphere that symbolized the theme " Building the World of Tomorrow " at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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Balanced on the prow of the spaceship is an image of a white Trylon bisecting a red Perisphere, those iconic emblems of the fair and its " World of Tomorrow ."
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The real Perisphere contained a model of a utopian city that would strike us as a green suburb, though Lichtenstein puts smokestacks and skyscrapers in the background of his retro-futuristic city.
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The site has links to other articles, book reviews and photographs, and serves as a kind of gathering place for others who fondly remember the Trylon and Perisphere, the fair's symbols.
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Only the Trylon and Perisphere were all white; avenues stretching out into the zones from the Theme Center were designed with rich colors that changed the further one walked from the center of the grounds.
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One last noteworthy furniture design was a prize-winning metal armchair for the United States pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair, with a silhouette outlining the famous shapes of the Trylon and Perisphere.
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Just think how terrific it would be to leap, like Alice toward Wonderland, and see the Coney Island Steeplechase, the old Penn Station, the Trylon and Perisphere whizzing rapidly by one's gaze.
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A few doors down from the Trylon and the Perisphere, the fair's streamlined landmarks, Dali fashioned a flamboyantly misshapen booth called Dream of Venus and filled it with seminude women wearing rubber mermaid tails.
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The title reflects the two modernistic structures " Trylon and Perisphere, " together known as the " Theme Center " at the center of the New York World's Fair of 1939 1940.
