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03/01/2010 11:52 AM

DesignApplause | Jane dillon designer. Eye to the future.

in the late 60s as a recent graduate of the royal college of art she found her way to the milan studio of ettore sottsass. for the most part she worked on color studies for a line of olivetti office furniture for sottsass . and she also ...

02/01/2010 10:45 AM

I'm Not Sure How I Missed This, But I Did «

In 2006 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art held the first major museum retrospective exhibition of his work in the United States. “A retrospective exhibition, Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress�, was held at the Design Museum in London ...

12/21/2009 12:05 AM

Fwd: Ettore Sottsass: We Were Exuberant and Still Had Hope

With this exhibition of several works by Ettore Sottsass (Innsbruck 1917 - Milan 2007), all dated 1969, Marres presents a new position in the investigation of the 20th century and the idea of avant-garde. ...

05/01/2008 09:26 PM

fluxus: Memphis: The New International Style

Sottsass called Memphis "The New International Style" which we took to have a hint of irony since the international style we were seeing all over in Eastern Europe from Yugoslavia and East Germany to the Soviet Union was utilitarian ... Viewing Memphis designers you can easily see the influence of 60s and 70s pop artists Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Dazzle panel artist John McHale, optical artists Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely as well as commercially designed objects ...

02/22/2010 02:12 AM

Karl Dietz: Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007)

contemporary art. The building, by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines, opens up to vast, modular exhibition spaces with imposing dimensions that can accommodate very tall pieces as well as large installations. It also ...