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Design Hits, Revisited
The business of design is a fickle one—over the course of time, some names become iconic while others fade into obscurity. An A-list of contemporary designers give a shout-out to their favorite people and pieces from the past.
May 2011
Art and furniture pioneer Wendell Castle introduced Nicholas Kilner,
director of Sebastian + Barquet gallery in New York, to Officina 11—the
little-known Italian collaboration of Fabio de Sanctis (b. 1931) and Ugo
Sterpini (b. 1927)—which produced furniture so trippy, the designers
were invited to show in the Paris Surrealists Exhibition of 1965. “Their
irreverent approach to good taste helped lay the foundation for the
antidesign movements of the Sixties and Seventies,” says Kilner. His
favorite: the Cielo, Mare, Terra cabinet, which is mounted on lion’s
feet and fronted by a pair of pink Mark I Fiat 600 doors.
May 2011
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