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Design in Italy

Explore furniture, lighting and objects through the decisions behind their design.

Read: Arco and Tolomeo: Two Ideas in Italian Lighting Design

Read about materials, construction and use, then explore designers, makers and exact objects. This channel brings together researched explainers and product profiles. Its stories connect designed objects and furnishings to the materials, construction and ways of living they shape.

A floor-standing lamp with a long curved stem and pale marble base stands in a sunlit living room.

Arco and Tolomeo: Two Ideas in Italian Lighting Design

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Pelletteria Artigiana Viviani

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An Oriente Italiano Indaco tea cup with blue flowers and a curled handle sits on a wooden table.

Ginori 1735 Oriente Italiano Indaco Tea Cup

Blue-and-white Indaco decoration meets the Antico Doccia form in Ginori’s tea cup.

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