DeTnk - Ettore Sottsass

SuperDesign, a survey of Italian Radical Design from 1965-1975 at R & Company

Collecting Design — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 08:45:08 +0000

R & Company presents SuperDesign, a survey of Italian Radical Design from 1965-1975, curated by freelance journalist and independent design curator Maria Cristina Didero. The exhibition has been over a decade in the making and has come together through extensive research, passionate collecting and frequent trips to Italy to interview protagonists of the movement.

Ettore Sottsass – Rebel and Poet at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:09:06 +0100

This year he would have celebrated his 100th birthday: the Austro-Italian designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007), one of the most influential and unconventional figures in twentieth-century design. He gained renown with his designs for the office equipment manufacturer Olivetti, for his poetic, minimalist sculptural objects, and as the leading figure of the Memphis design collective in the 1980s.

Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical at the Met Breuer

Collecting Design — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:58:46 +0100

A seminal figure in 20th-century design, the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) created a vast body of work, the result of an exceptionally productive career that spanned more than six decades.