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Scene from the motion picture "Romeo and Juliet" with Olivia Hussey (Juliet) and Leonard Whiting (Romeo), 1968; directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
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Born December 15, 1888 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died March 28, 1954 (aged 65)

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Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Eero Saarinen in a womb chair
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American architect
Charlotte Perriand: 1928 dining room
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French designer
Alvar Aalto.
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Frank Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Frank Gehry
Canadian American architect
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Terence Conran
British designer and entrepreneur
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
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British cabinetmaker
David Roentgen
European cabinetmaker
Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)
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English furniture designer
Vase with relief decoration by Émile Gallé, c. 1895; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Émile Gallé
French glass designer