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22/04/2011 | By: Amy Tokic

We think if you ask nicely, your wife will let you decorate your home with pieces from the Fiat 500 Design Collection. And just like the car, this furniture collection is designed to save space while making a bold style statement.

This uber-cool collection is sleek and modern, and it’ll be hard for your wife or interior decorator to make a case that they don’t go with anything else in the room. Taking its inspiration from the Fiat 500, the collection is designed by interior design company Meritalia and Lapo Elkann (the Fiat chairman’s brother and a potential future chairman of Ferrari.) You can furnishing your living space with the Picnic table (shown here), the Cin Cin bar counter and the Panorama sofa. Each of the pieces showcases the front end of the original Cinquecento and is available in red, white, green or black.

07/07/2009 | By: Colum Wood

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The matte-paint trend has just reached a new high… or should we say low. Behold the matte-baby blue Ferrari 599, which is reportedly owned by Lapo Elkann, the grandson of Fiat founder Gianni Agnelli and heir to the company.

No doubt this car will make a few Prancing Horse traditionalists a little woosey. If you consider yourself among that crowd, don’t take a look inside. Why not? Well, there you will find a pair of sporty Ferrari seats covered in a pair of bluejeans.

To make maters worse, the car is apparently not the creation of some aftermarket hack, but a factory job. It looks like Ferrari’s custom options ordering sheet is a little longer than normal when your family owns the company.

GALLERY: Matte Baby Blue Ferrari 599

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[Source: Autogspot via Autoblog]