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50, lnhedit.com As far as iconic prints go, I’m not sure any have stood the test of time quite so much as the Breton stripe, once favoured by Pablo Picasso and James Dean. Originally the official dress of the French navy, apparently it was Coco Chanel that elevated it from uniform to stylish fashion item, managing to feel both bourgeois and bohemian depending on how you wore it.
Napoleon and Josephine decorated the walls and ceilings of the Chateau de Malmaison with stripes way before it was considered fashionable to plaster your home with them, proving their enduring appeal to the tastemaker. Italian architect Gio Ponti’s post-war Villa Planchart, designed for Armando and Anala Planchart in 1956, is a riot of colour and pattern with yellow and white diagonally striped ceilings, just one of the design surprises of the villa which is considered to be one of the postwar era’s most exuberant works of domestic architecture, described by .