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Les Lalanne: The French Designer Couple Who Made Beauty Out of Beasts

Les Lalanne: The French Designer Couple Who Made Beauty Out of Beasts
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Throughout the 1970s, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne created fantastical pieces of furniture—life-size hippo wet bars, flocks of cement sheep— that are currently conquering the art market. As billionaires fixate on acquiring whole menageries, can Lalanne keep the magic?

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