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Design Crossover: Willy Rizzo

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Photography and furniture design - Willy Rizzo did both. He made a leap from a very successful career as a portrait photographer in the sixties to working on abstract modernist furniture design in the seventies. Paul Smith recently mounted an exhibit of his work - and Wallpaper covered it. We pulled a few interesting examples of both his furniture and his portraits - jump below to check them out:

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Lamps


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Yves St. Laurent and Pierre Cardin


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Backgammon Table


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Coco Chanel


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Bar Table


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Christian Dior


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Dining Table

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Willy Rizzo

All photos via: Wallpaper

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Pardon my ignorance, but how do you pronounce Yves?

posted by Michael W. on January 11th 2008 at 12:20pm
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It's pronounced like Eve (of Adam and ... fame)

posted by ce_pelle on January 12th 2008 at 3:21pm
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