Brian Kane was introduced to the world of industrial design by a school advisor. “He pointed to his office chair, his phone, the clock and said: Someone designed all of this,” Kane recalls.
After graduating from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and spending a year in New York working on housewares design, Kane and his wife went to Milan, Italy, where he literally knocked on doors. One opened—the office of architect Silvio Coppola—and changed his life. “My mindset changed when I saw his passion for design,” says Kane, who decided to pursue furniture design.
He returned to New York after a year and accepted a position at Atelier International (ai). In 1977, he...
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