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...A friend needed immigration papers, Alessi claimed, and he was going through a divorce at the time so his assets were frozen....
...The final winning point: I had looked everywhere for an English translation of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, by Robert Musil, in many countries....
...Robert Stadler’s 2004 Pools and Pouf sofa and footstool cluster resembles a giant ink spill rendered in black leather....
...His series of stainless-steel fruit bowls and centrepieces for Alessi, which will appear at the Salone del Mobile, recalls childhood memories of playing cards while the ferocious Sirocco wind was blowing...
...Alberto Alessi, 62, is the chief executive of the family-run homeware business Alessi, founded in 1921 and based in Crusinallo, northern Italy....
...Sottsass disbanded it, the Memphis movement and its rule-breaking, media-friendly hybrid pieces defined the high design of the decade and a Who’s Who of talent took to it: Shiro Kuramata, Javier Mariscal and Robert...
...But Michael Graves designs one” – referring to the architect’s Alessi kettle – “and suddenly you want one”....
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