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	Ettore Sottsass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ettore Sottsass (1917-) is an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century.
		Ettore Sottsass is one of the leading members of the ‘Memphis’ group founded in 1981 with Barbara Radice as public relations/art director.
		Ernest Mourmans' House in Belgium by Ettore Sottsass
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ettore_Sottsass (307 words)

	Ettore Sottsass / Design Museum Collection : Architect + Product Designer (1917-) - Design/Designer Information
		Ettore Sottsass with his 1981 Beverly cabinet for Memphis
		Ettore Sottsass has devoted his life and work to dismantling the past in his various roles as artist, architect, industrial designer, glass maker, publisher, theoretician and ceramicist.
		Ettore Sotsass, Sottsass Ceramics, Thames and Hudson, 1995
	www.designmuseum.org /design/ettore-sottsass (1501 words)

	Ettore Sottsass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To immortalize this scene is another boy, Ettore Sottsass, a fifty-year-old with a kind gaze, born in Innsbruck and married in 1949 to his beat generation friend Fernanda Pivano.
		Sottsass must have known freedom there, surrounded by the beat generation who wanted to save the world, when the adventure of a different kind of design was still a long way away.
		Sottsass doesn't like talking about it; it's not his most successful work, nor is it the height of avantgardism.
	www.sanpellegrino.com /flash_site/articolo.asp?id=107 (427 words)

	Saluting Sottsass \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Sottsass – the ever-thoughtful designer who surprised us with a lipstick-red portable typewriter named Valentine (1969); the cartoonishly expressive, red, white, yellow and fl-splashed Casablanca sideboard (1981); and jewel-toned glass fruit bowls adorned with “jewelry” the way a chandelier dangles prisms (1986) – is now 88 and still working.
		Sottsass, who was accompanied by Barbara Radice, his longtime companion, colleague and biographer, worked on this exhibition and its presentation in the galleries for several years with museum staff.
		The son of architect Ettore Sottsass Sr., Sottsass was born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1917.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060326/news_1h26italian.html (1369 words)

	Ettore Sottsass and Design and Technology
		Ettore Sottsass was one of the leading members of the Memphis Group founded in 1981 with a group of recently graduated designers and journalist Barbara Radice as public relations/art director.
		In 1976 Sottsass was asked by the Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design, New York to exhibit a series of his photographs of architecture in both desert and mountain environments.
		Sottsass designed metalware, glassware and furniture for the Memphis Group until 1985 and eventually disbanded the group in 1988.
	www.design-technology.org /ettoresottsass.htm (717 words)

	Ettore Sottsass [LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art]
		Widely acclaimed for his groundbreaking contributions to furniture and office-machine design since the 1950s, Sottsass is equally known for his outspoken ideas against the traditional tenets of mainstream modernism and the commercialism of twentieth-century design.
		Sottsass also was inspired by the theories of psychologist Carl Jung, who introduced the idea of the collective unconscious — that all humans share experiences that enable them to subconsciously recognize universal symbols and understand their meanings.
		Sottsass continues to use these symbols, such as the circle, to emphasize the signiﬁcance of form and to communicate on a primal level.
	www.lacma.org /art/exhibition/sottsass/index.aspx (1714 words)

	DECEMBER 2005
		Because of the breadth of Ettore Sottsass’s artistic contributions and his continued achievements as a design leader, the exhibition is not considered a retrospective.
		Ettore Sottsass unveils the provocative designs of a creative force not yet fully exposed to the American audience, at the same time underscoring LACMA’s firm commitment to promoting modern and contemporary design.
		Austrian-born Ettore Sottsass graduated from the Turin Politecnico in 1939 with a degree in architecture and moved to Milan after the second World War to open his first of several architecture and design studios.
	www.lacma.org /press/releases/Sottsass12_15_05.htm (834 words)

	Ettore Sottsass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ettore Sottsass (1917-) is an Italian designer of the late 20th century.
		At this point, it's perhaps illuminating to turn to a 1978 interview with Ettore Sottsass Jr who was an integral part of the milieu that formed itself into the Situationist International: 'I was always interested in ancient cultures, the Egyptian, the Sumerian, the Central American and Jewish cultures.
		Ettore Sottsass conceived Memphis, one of the most fascinating recent phenomena in the field of furniture and object design.
	www.jahsonic.com /EttoreSottsass.html (423 words)

	Los Angeles - The master of delight.For 65 years, Ettore Sottsass' designs have turned the world on its head. And he's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass, shape, texture, volume and color are languages as direct as the spoken word.
		Of course, Sottsass has frequently said he doesn't care about all the academics and their 'isms.' He is a painter, poet, philosopher, photographer, designer of textiles and graphics and exquisitely exuberant homes.
		Sottsass' houses, angular and colorful, are designed to be comfort zones, he says, to embrace and protect and to provide what humans need.
	www.europaconcorsi.com /db/rec/inbox.php?id=9940 (1909 words)

	Metropolis Feature: Returning to the Source
		Neither is Sottsass Associati's vision for the Malpensa 2000 Airport in Milan, in which the usual conceits of airport interior design--the glass, the chrome, the implied hurried life--were bypassed, in favor of wood, stone, and terrazzo tile, materials more often associated with warmth and permanence.
		The wall is bare except for two fl-and-white photographs--one, of his architect father, the late Ettore Sottsass Sr., in soft profile; the other, a tiny picture of a female nude--and they nicely sum up two lifelong preoccupations: the first, his heritage as an architect; the second, his extravagant love of women, all women.
		Sottsass came back to architecture for his usual serendipitous reasons: "We were again lucky, because a very rich friend asked us to build a house." The friend in question was photography dealer Daniel Wolf.
	www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0198/ja98sott.htm (3514 words)

	Ettore Sottsass Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The experience with ‘radical design’ brought Sottsass to create and become one of the founders of the Memphis Group in 1981.
		It was a sort of ‘art shop’ which merged theory and practice, intellectual research and a strong presence on the market, a historical avant-garde which had a determinant influence also in the artistic field and which held a strong point in the irony that permeated the objects and subsituted functionality.
		Sottsass’ most important cooperations in the world of glassworks are with S.A.L.I.R. in the 50s and with Vistosi and Venini in the 70s.
	www.vistosi.it /english/designers/sottsass (177 words)

	Grimaldi Forum Monaco â“ Cultural Center
		Ettore Sottsass, son of the architect of the same name, was born in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1917 and moved to Italy with his family in 1929.
		Four years later Ettore Sottsass joined the Studio Alchimia, founded by Alexandro Guerriero, which defined itself as a "project for the image of the 20th century" and a "laboratory for a new iconography"; it heralded a new generation in design.
		Sottsass left Memphis in 1985 but continues his creative work designing objects for Artemide, Alessi and others while pursuing his international career as an architect.
	www.grimaldiforum.com /eng/culturel/expo_info.aspx?r=46&ID=19 (481 words)

	Ettore Scola - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ettore Scola - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Scola, Ettore, born in 1931, Italian motion-picture director and screenwriter of social comedies and historical films.
		Svevo, Italo (1861–1928), pen name of Ettore Schmitz, Italian novelist, who was encouraged by Irish writer James Joyce.
	encarta.msn.com /Ettore_Scola.html (84 words)

	The table as seen by Ettore Sottsass
		This is the approach of Ettore Sottsass, a personality who is not only a very great designer and architect but can also be described as an intriguing philosopher.
		Sottsass has designed all sorts of things: from salt-cellars to ice-buckets, and from sets of plates to lines of glasses.
		For Sottsass, design is a way of talking about life, the forces which drive it, aspirations, society, politics and design itself.
	www.kitchens.it /articolo.asp?art=837 (352 words)

	Ettore Sottsass Biography: Ettore Sottsass, designer and ardent design philosopher, worked throughout his career to ...
		Ettore Sottsass Biography: Ettore Sottsass, designer and ardent design philosopher, worked throughout his career to shake the static ways in which people thought about form and aesthetics.
		For the 1972 "New Domestic Landscape" show at the MoMA Sottsass proposed a group of plastic containers on castors that could be moved and rearranged to create different living areas within a house.
		Memphis was made up mostly of young designers who, along with Sottsass were interested in producing radical objects and furniture that debated the relevance of modern design.
	www.r20thcentury.com /bios/designer.cfm?article_id=94 (477 words)

	Ettore Sottsass \| Designer \| Memphis Movement \| Architect \| George Nelson \| Charles Eames \| Frank Gehry \| Olivetti \| ...
		I learned from my father to be always very concentrated -- while doing any kind of work you forget about all the rest which does not pertain the work itself and you gather all your intellectual power and all your existential experience to be applied to the task.
		Born in 1917, Sottsass was trained as an architect and fueled by life.
		He founded Sottsass Associates at 62 and continues to absorb and entertain the world.
	www.purecontemporary.com /Interview/article/15 (971 words)

	Product Details
		watches designed by andrea branzi and ettore sottsass for alessi.
		ettore sottsass, who currently has an exhibit at LACMA, has contributed two watches, which feature a hidden, recessed adjustment knob.
		also an extremely prolific designer, sottsass is a world-renowned figure in the fields of design, photography, and architecture.
	www.unicahome.com /p25340/alessi/alessi-watches-by-andrea-branzi-and-ettore-sottsass.html (228 words)

	MAM - Collection - Contemporary Art - Ettore Sottsass
		Ettore Sottsass became internationally known for his work for the Italian office supply company Olivetti during the 1950s.
		This centerpiece, for example, eschews conventional silver form and decoration in favor of an open dish with zig-zag supports, which conveys an electric formal energy that is without historical precedent.
		Though Sottsass advocated design for the masses, the use of a costly material such as sterling silver restricts this piece to the luxury market.
	www.mam.org /collections/contemporaryart_detail_sottsass.htm (150 words)

	Los Angeles - Ettore Sottsass Designs Follow Form, Not Function, in Los Angeles Exhibition - Europaconcorsi
		Sottsass sees himself not as an industrial designer but as a 'theoretical designer - like Einstein is a theoretical physicist,' as he said in an interview two days before the show opened.
		Sottsass would openly juxtapose the two materials, playing the rich, warm history of wood against the cheap, tacky associations of plastic in furniture for Alchymia and Memphis.
		Sottsass called it a way of rejecting the principles of good taste by 'quoting from suburbia.' Others, of course, call it a prime example of postmodernism, a term the designer prefers to reserve for his American counterparts, like Mr.
	www.europaconcorsi.com /db/rec/inbox.php?id=10465 (1770 words)

	DESSA - Ettore Sottsass Jr.
		Ettore Sottsass requires no introduction to the professional public.
		architecture in the late 70s when "architects did not have to be silent anymore", Sottsass played an important role in exploring the language of architecture.
		In short, Ettore Sottsass Jr., architect, designer, painter, theorist and writer is the initiator of a new design and a new architecture which extend beyond functionalism.
	www2.arnes.si /~ljdessa1/sottsass (166 words)

	Ettore Sottsass, Vitra, Miniature Vitra Chair
		The first among equals in contemporary design, architect and industrial designer Ettore Sottsass has become a legend.
		Moving to Milan after World War II, Sottsass soon began to work for Olivetti and has several electronic product designs to his name, including the mainframe computer Elea 9003 for which he won a Compasso d’Oro award.
		Sottsass became a leading member of the Memphis group formed in 1981 with the objective of reviving radical design.
	www.spacify.com /Designer_product.asp?Designer_id=132 (206 words)

	Ettore Sottsass at Barry Friedman Art in America - Find Articles
		This comprehensive career overview of Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass focused on products introduced both prior to and following his founding in 1981 of Memphis, the well-known Milan-based collective at the vanguard of postmodern design.
		Born in Austria in 1917, Sottsass practiced in Milan in 1947, then briefly worked in the New York studios of modernist George Nelson before returning to Italy.
		The three wood columns of the altarlike Vanity No. 9 (1996) rest on a plinth of maple and support a plateau surmounted by a small, fl-lacquered wood tabernacle of a box and, in turn, by a small mirror inset into a screen of rare red-patterned wood from the Guyanas.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_3_93/ai_n13470759 (500 words)

	reveries magazine » Archive » Ettore Sottsass
		“The knob problem is a big problem,” says Ettore Sottsass, who refers to himself “not as industrial designer but as a ‘theoretical designer —; like Einstein is a theoretical physicist,” reports Jori Finkel in The New York Times (4/2/06).
		Anyway, Ettore made the comment in reference to a wardrobe he designed, called the Superbox, where “he decided not to put a knob on the wardrobe door at all, but inserted a metal rod into the door’s side that one can pull on to open it.”
		All of this has made Ettore Sottsass a "hard sell among collectors." Marc Benda of the Barry Friedman gallery comments: "Ettore’s work makes such a strong statement … that it’s hard to decorate with.
	reveries.com /?p=439 (374 words)

	Maelstrom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born 1917, the long career of the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass has been distinguished by intellectual and philosophical integrity, as well as by the originality of his many designs.
		A child of modernism, he became one of its' leading and most articulate critics, developing a wide range of intellectual and alternatives to demonstrate its' shortcomings.
		Ettore Sottsass is among the most prolific and consistently radical of the 20th Century designers.
	www.maelstrom.co.uk /cgi-bin/designers.cgi?act=display_article&id=973614941 (114 words)

	Vitruvio.ch - Ettore Sottsass ( Austria)
		ettore sottsass, interview with a central figure in avantgarde culture, the creator o...
		Ettore Sottsass [^^ Up] --- [Next > > ] Ettore Sottsass 1917-now You are being redirected to the new address at jahsonic.com Born in Innsbruck in 1917...
		Ettore Sottsass a ottantun anni, porta i capelli raccolti in una treccia ed ha un volto più interessante di quando era giovane e sembrava...
	www.vitruvio.ch /arc/masters_02/sottsass.php (407 words)

	Ettore Sottsass - Designers - American or Boston Cocktail Shaker, Wine Stand Cooler, Condiment Set, Ice Bucket: 150cl
		Born in Innsbruck in 1917, he is known the world over as one of the initiators of the revolution in architecture and design which led away from the rigid functionalism of the years prior to and following the Second World War.
		"Ettore Sottsass came to Crusinallo in 1972, on Sargiani's invitation.
		He was preceded by the fame of his work for Olivetti, his reputation as the guru of radical design - and he was the first person of truly international standing with whom I had dealings.
	www.icone.co.uk /ettore_sottsass?PHPSESSID=0f34f241191d1c0fd25a3df795b41ac0 (232 words)

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