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        "tombstone": "Fruit Bowl, 1982. Ettore Sottsass (Italian, 1917\u20132007), Memphis Firm (Italian). Silver; diameter: 39.6 cm (15 9/16 in.); open and extended: 29.3 cm (11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Trideca Society, 1998.149",
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        "title": "Fruit Bowl",
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        "measurements": "Diameter: 39.6 cm (15 9/16 in.); Open and extended: 29.3 cm (11 9/16 in.)",
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                    "title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                    "description": "<i>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).",
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                    "description": "MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006):  \"The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art\", no. 120, p. 123, repr. p. 89.",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cCleveland Acquires Major New Sculpture, Rare Chinese Prints, Contemporary Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs,\u201d October 30, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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                "biography": "The most recent and best-known of Italian 'new wave' design groups. Founded in 1981 in Milan by Ettore Sottsass with Andrea Branzi, Michele De Iacchi (b. 1951) Matteo Thun (b. 1952) , Marco Zanini (b. 1954), Natalie Du Pasquier (b. 1957) and others. Non-Italians, notably Michael Graves and Hans Hollein, occasionally contributed designs. Anarchic and disruptive, Memphis is both anti-design and anti-ideology, despite much use of structuralist, semiologist and other fashionable jargons in its promotional literature. It flaunts the rejection of 'good form' and 'good taste' with a lavish use of gaudily colored plastic laminates redolent of suburban McDonald's or of nursery foods and sweets. It has been described as the ultimate fruit-salad in design, the 1981 Casablanca cupboard in HPL print laminate by Sottsass being its paradigmatic masterpiece. Besides furniture, the group has produced fabrics, ceramics, silver and glass.",
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