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“ Jean Nouvel presents, as in his Utopian tower for the Biennale, evanescent mirror-finish cylinders of burnished, shimmering metal, gilded on the inside, where the inscription “café café que j’aime ta couleur café,” by the effect of anamorphosis, adds a literary and narrative quality to the principal intention of dynamic and visual fruition. - A. Mendini, April 2003 Coffee set composed of coffee pot, milk jug, sugar bowl, 2 coffee cups with saucers for coffee cup, tray. Materials: 925/1000 silver, double walled with gilding inside, Lid in thermoplastic resin, 925/1000 decorated silver. Production limited to 99 copies, plus 3 author’s proof copies.