
Ettore Sottsass
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( Italian 丨 1917 - 2007 )
Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer.
His work included furniture, jewelry, glass, lighting, home and office objects, as well as many buildings and interiors. He grew up in Turin and
graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Torino in 1939.In 1947, in
Milan, he founded his architecture and industrial design studio, where he
began to create work using various media.
In 1956, Sottsass went to New York and began to work in George Nelson’s design studio. Back in Italy, he established major collaboration projects
with Poltronova (1957) and Olivetti (1958).
From the late ’60s and throughout the ’70s he collaborated with Superstudio and Archizoom Associati, within the Radical movement, until the foundation of
Memphis Group in 1981, of which he was a founding member. In the mid-’80s,
with Sottsass Associati, mainly an architecture studio, he also designed
elaborate shops and showrooms, company identities, exhibitions, interiors,
Japanese consumer electronics, and furniture of all kinds. Sottsass was
presented numerous international awards, winning the ADI Compasso d’Oro in
1959. His work is on show in the permanent collections of many museums around
the world such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Centre G.
Pompidou in Paris, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.