It was an implicit wish for a spectacular form of suicide, for a spectacularly prosaic reason the loss, experienced by thousands of Russian women of her generation, of her life s existential foundation.

Any of you who rode the automobiles was it yesterday? at the track, you know the romance revolving around those high performance cars.

And this was another thing that I felt, while not nearly as romantic as Cary Grant, nevertheless begins to grab a little bit of aesthetic operation, aesthetic performance into a product.

And for the following 25 years, living in Italy, living in America, I doled out a piece of this romance to anybody who'd pay for it this sense, this aesthetic feeling, for the experience revolving around a designed object.