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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