Bruno Munari was a great experimenter, even in the direction of applied arts. He began making his first Machines from 1933 and in 15 years designed 93 of them using techniques derived from the industrial production of serial products. The earliest works have allusive titles (Sensitive Machines, Machine Breath) that then ironically turn into Useless Machines to emphasize the pure and unique aesthetic function untied from any functionality and efficiency. “Personally, I thought it would be interesting to free the abstract forms from the static nature of the painting and suspend them in the air, connected to each other so that they live with us in our environment, sensitive to the true atmosphere of reality.”