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"Carla Fendi's Eclectic Apartment in Rome\nA snow-white flat in a palazzo provides a crisp backdrop for the fashion executive's visionary collection of 20th-century European art and design\nFashion executive Carla Fendi, shown, and her husband, Candido Speroni, enlisted interior designer Cesare Rovatti and architects Fabrizio Taliento and Simona Fabbrizi Formilli to create a modern apartment in a 16th-century Roman palazzo.\nA 1920 Italian wrought-iron ceiling fixture is suspended above a bronze sculpture by Libero Andreotti and a pair of '30s armchairs in the entrance hall; the wall sculpture is a contemporary piece by Lucio Perone.\nThe living room features a metal bar made by Fran\u00E7ois-Xavier Lalanne for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berg\u00E9. A white nail-studded Enrico Castellani painting hangs above the Rovatti-designed sofa, as do works by (from left) Lucio Fontana, Henri Matisse, and Alberto Burri.\nOn one side of the living room, a pair of Lalanne bronzes\u2014a desk in the form of a preening mountain sheep and a ram stool\u2014flank a seating area; a Giorgio Morandi still life is mounted on an 18th-century Italian gilt-wood mirror, while Gio Ponti vases rest on nesting tables by Rovatti. The red-lacquer stool is by \u00C9mile-Jacques Ruhlmann.\nWhite leather sofas by Rovatti anchor the library.\nA Thonet chair by Josef Hoffmann accompanies a Rovatti table; the floor lamp is by Vibia.\nArmchairs by Patricia Urquiola for De Padova sit next to the fireplace; the drawing is by Pablo Picasso, and the bronze figures on the tables are by Umberto Baglioni.\nCanvases by Carlo Levi, Anthony Moore, Felice Casorati, and Alberto Ziveri are displayed near Rovatti-designed maple benches in the portrait gallery; the woman at center is Adele Fendi, the company's founder and Carla's mother.\nFendi and Speroni share a moment near a painting by Giulio Aristide Sartorio.\nIn the dining room, a painting by Mario Sironi overlooks a circa-1925 Murano-glass-and-paste tabletop decoration by Napoleone Martinuzzi that was owned by the Italian royal family.\nIKEA metal chairs are pulled up to a counter in the kitchen, which is paved with Sicis tiles.\nThe billiard room's 17th-century ceiling hosts a Rovatti pendant light; the Brenno del Giudice armoire is from the 1930s, as is the pool table.\nJoe Colombo card tables from 1968 furnish the bridge room, along with vintage Cassina hanging lights; the French bar and Spanish carpet are from the '30s.\nThe fashion executive's bedroom is outfitted with a French Art Deco bed made of thuya wood; the chandelier is 19th-century French, and the nude is by Scuola Romana artist Francesco Trombadori.\nFendi's dressing room includes a Vienna Secession light fixture, a 1927 Ruhlmann desk, and a '30s carpet.\nLight pours into Fendi's bath through a stained-glass window inspired by Matisse cutouts and custom made by Giorgio Piredda; the tub's chrome fittings are by Dornbracht."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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