 The Sala delle Medaglie d’Oro, in which the achievements of Italy’s gold-medallist aviators were fêted at the Mostra Dell’aeronautica Italiana in Milan (1934), was an important symbolic use of the Rationalist three-dimensional grid visually to enhance as well as define function.The use of linear elements was further extended for decorative as well as spatial purposes in the Parker shop (1934–5), Milan.With Giancarlo Palanti they designed the Salone d’Onore at the Triennale of 1936 in Milan, a brilliant reconciliation of the contemporary call for a national neo-classical style with European modernism.