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Whatever you design, whether it is an interior, a piece of furniture, or merely a stage set, must always contain the promise of a whole city," the Italian architect Gae Aulenti told Architectural Digest for a story about her Milanese apartment in 1990.
By that point, she had turned a train station in Paris into the Musée d'Orsay, designed galleries at the Centre Pompidou, and restored the Palazzo Grassi in Venice. But in 1965, after a 10-year stint crafting the visual identity of Casabella magazine, she was still working on a smaller scale-creating residential interiors and furniture to inhabit them.
This story is from the October 2024 edition of Architectural Digest US.
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