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Alessandro Mendini etat. Groninger Museum Groningen, The Netherlands, 1990-94

Above, Philippe Starek uses an undulating curtain as a divider in his area of the Groninger Museum, while the Coop Himmelblau section (right) assumes a much harder-edged appearance. The Austrians stepped into the project at a late stage, after a design by the artist Frank Stella for the same pavilion was abandoned as too costly and complex to build.

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