During the Cold War, design came to be considered a weapon which could be used to achieve world leadership. The design and production of things would become a propaganda tool to exhibit the economic strength and technological progress of conflicting countries. 

Nowadays, many of the things that were manufactured during those years have become essential to daily life. Moreover, they are considered to be authentic works of art, and can be seen as exhibits at the MoMA museum in New York, where everything that has been designed to be useful, attractive and has achieved commercial success is deemed to be a work of art.

Among the utensils in this category, we can find anything from kitchenware products such as frying pans, cooking pots, a shrimp deveiner or a potato peeler, to automobile designs such as the Fiat Cinquecento, or other designs like the famous Noguchi table.

Tupperware has become a universal product and also forms part of this artistic collection, which was a great stimulus for the middle classes who were recovering from the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and showed that everybody could consume genuine works of art.

Also to be found in this artistic collection was the CHEMEX® coffeemaker, which was first produced in 1941, the German Werra camera or the American La Chaise lounge chair, which is still being produced by Vitra.