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As revealed in last week’s news pages, the Horny Philippe lamp from designer Ingo Maurer was inspired by the horn shape seen in many of Philippe Starck’s designs. Some viewers claim to see a different influence, perhaps illuminated further in original sketches for the homage. These make the designers’ claim that it ‘fits the androgynous spirit of the Nineties’ a little hard to swallow.

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