“Light is impressionism.”

—  Gae Aulenti

Source: Time (8 December 1986) : On positioning galleries for impressionist and post impressionist paintings at the top of her design for Paris's Musée d'Orsay

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Italian architect, lighting and interior designer, and indu… 1927–2012

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