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Metro Station, University of Naples (2011)
Peppe Avallone/New York Times

Metro Station, University of Naples (2011)

“On March 26, the 40,000 commuters of Naples, Italy, who pass daily through the University of Naples metro station found that virtually every surface had been transformed into a candy-colored kaleidoscope by the American designer Karim Rashid. […] He printed wire-frame patterns on quartz flooring, applied portraits of Dante and Beatrice to the stairs and tiled the walls with words coined in the digital age.” […]”    –Shonquis Moreno, The New York Times, April 20, 2011

Contributed by Hope Stockton (Bowdoin, ’07)

Sighting Citation:

“Metro Station, University of Naples (2011).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. April 24, 2011. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/metro-station-university-of-naples-2011/.