Italian curator and art critic Lea Vergine has died just a day after the death of her husband, Italian designer Enzo Mari, with the couple joining the growing list of iconic figures from architecture and design lost to coronavirus.
Legendary Italian designer Mari and his wife, art critic Vergine, both died of complications relating to coronavirus, according to Italian press reports.
Earlier this month the virus claimed fashion designer Kenzo Takada and in September took the life of interior designer Christian Liaigre.
Mari and Vergine hospitalised for Covid-related conditions
The Italian couple died just hours apart, with Mari passing away on 19 October aged 88 and Vergine passing on 20 October aged 82.
Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera said that Mari and Vergine had both been admitted to the San Raffaele hospital in the city with Covid-related conditions. "One day after the death of her husband, Enzo Mari, the curator and art critic Lea Vergine died in Milan, the newspaper wrote.
"The two were hospitalised at the San Raffaele hospital for complications related to Covid-19."
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The news comes just two weeks after Japanese fashion designer Takada died of the virus at the age of 88.
Last month, interior designer Christian Liaigre succumbed to the virus.

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