Italian collaboratives, like Archizoom and Superstudio, made witty one-liners that verged on pranks (the palm-tree-shaped floor lamp) alongside more refined riffs on modernism.

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The inquest heard how the fire on the ninth-floor flat of the 15-storey block started after a resident left a curtain resting on a lamp.

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Crawl inside and you will find a futon spread over a tatami-mat floor, with a small television and reading lamp mounted on the wall.

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