Michael Graves designed the whimsical Disney Corp. headquarters, which, seen in 1990, features Snow White’s seven dwarfs apparently holding up the building. (George Rose / Getty Images)
Architect and designer Michael Graves, at home in Princeton, N.J., in 2009, holds a bathtub handle he designed to help the handicapped and elderly. Graves has died at 80. (Mel Evans / Associated Press)
As a product designer creating chess sets, stainless-steel colanders and dustpans for Target and tea kettles for Alessi, Michael Graves, seen in 2003, brought high-design housewares to a broad public. (Daniel Hulshizer / Associated Press)
A woman leaves the post office Michael Graves designed in Celebration, Fla. (Preston Mack / Getty Images)
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Michael Graves also designed the whimsical Clos Pegase Winery building in Napa Valley, seen in 1990. (George Rose / Getty Images)
