In our room there is an oversized leather chair with an ottoman and a large floor lamp.

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Italian collaboratives, like Archizoom and Superstudio, made witty one-liners that verged on pranks (the palm-tree-shaped floor lamp) alongside more refined riffs on modernism.

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Crawl inside and you will find a futon spread over a tatami-mat floor, with a small television and reading lamp mounted on the wall.

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The inquest heard how the fire on the ninth-floor flat of the 15-storey block started after a resident left a curtain resting on a lamp.

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And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and the table he was lying on, or the floor on which the table stood, or the wall socket beneath the window, or the cable running to the lamp beside him.

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