Architecture & Design

547: Luca Vignelli

In 1972, his parents, Massimo and Lella, designed a map of the New York subway system. Many people hated it. I loved it. (I have one framed on my living room wall.) The MTA soon withdrew it. Now it’s back, slightly revised. Good news in bleak times.

Person: his mother
Place: Nerano, Italy
Thing: 1972 subway map
Randy’s Person: Phil Spector

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