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In other news, this week marked the start of the world's largest design event -- the Milan Furniture Fair.
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Soon after, at the 2001 Milan Furniture Fair, the couple met Stefano Grandi, head of an Italian company that makes motors and an art patron.
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Bisazza, the Italian firm famous for its mosaics, also broke with conventional wisdom when it launched the minimal, really-doesn't-say-bathroom-at-all "Nendo Collection, " designed by the Japanese architect Oki Sato, at the Milan Furniture Fair last week.
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In other news, energy-efficient lighting advanced by leaps and bounds this week as we flipped the switch on IKEA's new solar-powered Solvinden lamp and we spotted a crystalline "Stardust" LED lamp made from sugar at the Milan Furniture Fair.
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At the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan this week, she introduced 25 candlesticks designed with flakes of cast brass sparingly affixed to sleek, barely tapered cylinders lathe-turned from walnut wood.
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