The ironwork products that for more than a century dominated the craft are the monumental screens (rejas) found in all the great cathedrals of Spain.
Outside, a row of four-storey high glass doors, sourced from a hangar manufacturer, lines the principle elevation towards the highway, forming a monumental sliding screen which can be entirely drawn back for events and fashion shows on the forecourt.
Among the exhibitors are Stella Corrall, who makes domestic items from heat-treated plastic, and Ruth Moilliet's monumental glass screens containing layers of pressed flowers.
Most striking are the massive vertical screens protecting the living and dining area, which occupies the taller, central part of the U. Deployed three across on the eastern and western exposures, these monumental 10-by-24-foot 10-by-24-foot 10-by-24-foot 10-by-24-footkscreensnsions of thangnterior ceiling's I-beams.
The show was created by Tom Hanks (just about the first thing you see on screen, in monumental lettering, is "Tom Hanks Electric Cityy"), so perhaps the straight-ahead approach was to be expected.
Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.
Her face, so powerful in its impassivity, yet with unreadable hints of fear and anger, has something massive and monumental about it up on screen, the sculpted form of a Roman empress: like the gigantic marble head of Faustina the Elder, famously unearthed with the colossal statue of Hadrian in Turkey last year.
The Gehry design is, well, Gehry-esque: it reimagines the traditional monumental form, using huge metal screens to depict the landscape of Eisenhower's Kansan childhood while devoting far less space to his accomplishments in World War II and the White House.
Monumental vistas in the form of screen paintings round out the selection.
On screen we see a monumental slide projection of his scarred head and his shoulders as he reclines like a corpse on an autopsy table.
