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Sean Dix
Sean Dix
SCMP Contributor
Sean Dix is a Hong Kong- and Milan-based interior architect designing spaces, furniture and objects. He is inspired by and writes about vintage designs, and has been collecting rare and often overlooked objects and stories for more than four decades across four continents.

Before Disney’s Toy Story films, the Hasbro product was the first toy advertised on television, and also the first marketed directly to kids – Baby Boomers, to be precise.

Ercole Marelli founded the Italian company that manufactured numerous electric appliances, including the ubiquitous fan; but as Fascism took hold in Italy, he found ways to care for his employees

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The progressive ergonomic chair was created as an accessory to Ironrite Ironer’s automatic electric ironing machines in 1938 – long before the hand irons we use today