An exhibition at Lugano traced the development of his early career from his initial apprenticeship as a stone-cutter with the builders of the Duomo in Milan to his first important commission in Rome: the church and monastery of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, located at the crossroads of the Four Fountains in today's Via Quirinale.

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More are on on the way: Wolf reports Apple has found locations for new stores on the Peurta del Sol Plaza in Madrid, on Kurdamm Avenue in Berlin, and near the Duomo in Milan.

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There is also a fascinating blow-by-blow of how the leather is treated and cut and how the chairs are built, and a colorful accounting of a century's-worth of merchandising including, at far left, the 1968 launch of the Lullaby bed in the Piazza del Duomo, Milan as only the Italians know how.

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In 1387, the Visconti family declared its quarry the property of the Duomo, the cathedral in Milan then just beginning to be built.

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See Lino Rossini's sculptures first hand by visiting the Duomo di Milano (Piazza del Duomo 20121, Milan).

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We had thirty minutes to wander in downtown Milan, so Karen and Handy and I stepped into the cool interior of the Duomo.

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