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Audrey Hepburn

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Giorgio Armani (11 July 1934 – 4 September 2025)

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PRINCE: A LOVE SYMBOL PIN !

A custom-made gold, amethyst and diamond 'love symbol' pin, unmarked, owned and worn by Prince and given to Mayte Garcia, framed. 2 in. (5 cm.) high

The Jim Irsay Collection / Christie's

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Dame Judi Dench in her garden,

Charlie Clift Photography,

© Charlie Clift, United Kingdom, Shortlist, Open Competition, Lifestyle, 2026 Sony World Photography Awards.

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José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano (20 May 1935 – 13 May 2025)

Mr Mujica Cordano was an Uruguayan politician, revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.

He was a former guerrilla with the Tupamaros and was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.

"Pepe" was a member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a Senator afterwards.

As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential election and took office as president on 1 March 2010.

Mr Mujica had been described as "the world's poorest president" due to his austere lifestyle and his donation of around 90 percent of his US$12,000 monthly salary to charities that benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs.

An outspoken critic of capitalism's focus on stockpiling material possessions which do not contribute to human happiness.

In June 2012, Mr Mujica's government legalize state-controlled sales of marijuana in Uruguay in order to fight drug-related crimes and health issues, and stated that global leaders would be asked to do the same.

Mr Mujica said that by regulating Uruguay's estimated US$40 million-a-year marijuana business, the state would take it away from drug traffickers and weaken the drug cartels. The state would also be able to keep track of all marijuana consumers in the country and provide treatment to the most serious abusers, much like the treatment afforded to alcoholics.

Mr Mujica also passed a same-sex marriage law and legalized abortion.

In September 2013, Mujica addressed the United Nations General Assembly's 68th session, with a long speech devoted to humanity and globalization.The speech called on the international community to strengthen efforts to preserve the planet for future generations and highlighted the power of the financial systems and the impact of economic fallout on ordinary people.

He urged a return to simplicity, with lives founded on human relationships, love, friendship, adventure, solidarity and family, instead of lives shackled to the economy and the markets.

The share of social expenditure in total public expenditure thus rose from 60.9% to 75.5% between 2004 and 2013. During this period, the unemployment rate remained at about 7%, the national poverty rate was reduced from 18% to 9.7% and the minimum wage was raised from 4,800 pesos to 10,000 pesos (average annual inflation rate of 7%).

It also supported the strengthening of trade unions. According to the International Trade Union Confederation, Uruguay became the most advanced country in the Americas in terms of respect for "fundamental labor rights, in particular freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining and the right to strike".

"You have inspired millions of people, encouraging them to do their bit for a better world."

Thank you and Rest In Power !

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Eero Saarinen’s Tulip Chair !

In 1922 at age 12, Eero Saarinen won his first design contest, illustrating a story entirely with matchsticks for a Swedish newspaper. The prize was 30 Swedish kronor (about $8 at the time).

The Finnish-American architect grew up surrounded by design. His father, Eliel Saarinen, was a well-known architect and his mother, Loja Saarinen, was a talented sculptor and textile maker.

By the time he was a teenager, Eero was designing furniture and fixtures with his father, who was president at the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

In 1929, Eero left for Paris to study sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the following year enrolled in the Yale architecture program.

In the ’30s, he followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the family firm, also returning to teach at Cranbrook, which is where he became friends with Florence Knoll and Charles Eames, who turned into formative collaborators. 

In the late ’50s, Eero designed the Pedestal Collection for Knoll to alleviate the visual clutter he famously hated in American homes caused by a jumble of furniture legs in one room.

"The undercarriage of chairs and tables in a typical interior makes an ugly, confusing, unrestful world," he said. "I wanted to clear up the slum of legs." 

The furniture series, which features a dining chair and an armchair, as well as dining, coffee, and side tables, and stools, trades the standard four legs of chairs and tables for one central tulip-like pedestal, hence the moniker.

Mr Saarinen’s intention to "make the chair all one thing again" extended to materials. He wanted to mold the Tulip chair from one material, but it was technologically impossible at the time. Instead, a reinforced aluminum stem with a fused plastic finish supports the curved fiberglass shell.

Though Mr Saarinen completed the Tulip chair design for Knoll in 1956, with manufacturing beginning the following year, the patent drawing was filed in June 1960.

Courtesy of Eero Saarinen Collection. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University.

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