Notes on Perfection
United Company’s “Notes on Perfection” features the original concept of King C. Gillette’s World Corporation, a
utopian environment planned to be located on Niagara Falls spanning the boarder of the United States and Canada.
The protect includes artifacts from the United Company: small models of the buildings of the utopian settlement,
a book by Gillette, a script for a United Company produced video concerning the project, a Time Magazine article, and propaganda from Metropolis. All under the watchful eye of the United Companus first logo (c. 1880). The
installation includes a display of Gillette’s principals, as well as a monitor showing the video that introduces the
project. The project explores the concept of utopia in the context of a corporate developer and
specifically to examine the basis of The World Corporation and its possible development.
