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- ↑ Didero, Maria Cristina (2017). SuperDesign: Italian Radical Design 1965-75. The Monacelli Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-1580934954.
- ↑ Didero, Maria Cristina (2017). SuperDesign: Italian Radical Design 1965–75. The Monacelli Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-1580934954.
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