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Translated by Silvia — Lately at the Furniture Fair in Milan we have been able to admire the urban trendy touch on one of the most famous pieces in the history of design: a piercing applied on the sensual lips of DARK LADY, the new tainted black version of the Bocca sofa.

The original model in red created by Studio 65 in Turin in 1975 in homage to Salvador Dalì has become so famous as to be included in the permanent collection of New York’s MoMA, Paris’ Louvre, Milan’s Permanent Design Collection of Italian design and Denver’s Museum of Modern Art.

Strong piece in the “I Multipli” collection of about180 pieces, Bocca is indeed one of the most famous along with Pratone, Cactus and Capitello. Made from cold-expanded polyurethane a dressed in stretchy material, Bocca and its new version DARK LADY, produced in limited edition of only 1000 pieces, are produces by Gufram, the historical Italian company which is now a part of the Charme group (with Cappellini, Poltrona Frau and Gebruder Thonet).

Strangely though… in the States, this mythical and sexy sofa is known as MARILYN, a love seat, so-called by Eleanore Stendig from Stendig, Inc. in New York, the first importer of Bocca on American soil. The reference is clear!
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Translated by Silvia — ATYPYK will be present at Milan’s Design Week and will leave, as usual, an ironically rule-breaking and originally desecrating sign of its passage.

From this provocative studio based in Paris, we have already been able to appreciate Wooferang, Moon Carpet, the Bon Apetit! Tie, and now also the Clean Fast Race gloves, gloves made of (pink!) rubber for the new generations always in a hurry to complete domestic tasks. There are also the Kamasutra Condoms, with glow-in-the-dark packaging and the 64 erotic positions from which to take inspiration; Python tape, the sticky tape decorated in python print, to seal with style and the Break Up Handkerchief, the handkerchief to be used in case of love tragedies….

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The enlargement of the Eiffel Tower by the Serero Architects Studio

Translated by Silvia – An early April’s Fool joke that will make you think about how word of mouth on the internet is ever more powerful: the news of the enlargement of the top part of the Eiffel Tower for the 120^th anniversary of its construction that will fall in 2009 was indeed a hoax. The denied piece of news comes from the actual Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE), the agency that takes care of the management of the monument, symbol of the French capital by excellence, and without a doubt one of the most famous towers in the world.

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