Breaking news: German industrial designer Richard Sapper, who created iconic products for brands including Alessi, Knoll and IBM, has died aged 83.
Sapper died on 31 December 2015 according to a statement released by publishers Phaidon, which is due to release a monograph presenting work from the designer's almost 60-year career.
Sapper has designed products including the Tizio lamp, the ThinkPad range of laptops for IBM and the 9091 whistling kettle for Alessi. Other clients included Artemide, Kartell, Knoll, Lenovo and Magis.
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He was born in 1932 and was first employed as a stylist with Daimler Benz in Stuttgart. He founded his own studio in Milan in 1959 and worked as a consultant for many of Italy's leading companies, including Brionvega, Fiat and Pirelli.
During a 2013 interview looking back on his career, Sapper told Dezeen how Steve Jobs once tried to lure him to work for Apple, "but the circumstances weren't right because I didn't want to move to California and I had very interesting work here that I didn't want to abandon."
This story will be updated with more information shortly.
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