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Laidback living

Pattern was in the past and lighting to the fore at this special anniversary of a fair launched 50 years ago to give the Italian design industry a leg up. Lisa Green delivers the highlights...

From higher backs for sofas to pared-back pieces in raw or worked timbers, function counts in furniture for everyday living. Fred desk by Roberto Lazzeroni for Poltrona Frau. Wenge-stained ash desk with MDF top covered in saddle cowhide.
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2011 Milan furniture fair

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