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"View Slideshow\n\nMuriel Brandolini is a tastemaker straight out of central casting, her bravura aesthetic complemented by an Italian count for a husband and two camera-ready teenagers. As if that weren't enough to keep her profile riding high, this month the interior designer will be the eye of a perfect storm of personal style. On October 21, Phillips de Pury &amp;amp; Co. in New York City puts more than 125 pieces from her idiosyncratic collection on the block at its \"The World of Muriel Brandolini\" auction, coinciding with the release of a lush career monograph from Rizzoli bearing the same name.\n\nWhether a rotund Ron Arad bookcase or a console from Martin Szekely that is an assortment of silvery freestanding cylinders, many of the objects up for sale are showstoppers. Especially noteworthy are one-off furnishings that have put a dramatic stamp on the Manhattan-based designer's rooms for close to two decades and prove that, for her, decorating is a collaboration, never a mandate: Multicolor Pierre Charpin chairs combine into a Michelin Man\u2013esque sofa; a fire screen by Francesca Amfitheatrof is a lighthearted, bubblelike m\u00E9lange of metal disks.\n\nWith swaggering elements such as these, it's obvious Brandolini loves shaking up the status quo. To that end, she has devised vignettes for Phillips to highlight scores of lots\u2014as well as her boldly colored approach\u2014during the presale viewing, so be prepared to let down your defenses. \"You have to be free when you decorate,\" the designer says. That's priceless advice, even if you find yourself outbid on everything else.\n\nClick here to see some of the pieces from Muriel Brandolini's collection going on the auction block at Phillips de Pury."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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