Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass, Jr. ( born September 14, 1917 in Innsbruck, † 31 December 2007 in Milan ) was an Austro- Italian architect and designer of furniture, which he predominantly in the strongly influenced by his style of "anti- design" designed, the international renown and success made ​​him.

Life

Sottsass was born the son of Antonia Peintner and architect Ettore Sottsass senior. In 1935 he began studying at the Polytechnic of Turin, where he graduated in 1939 with a diploma. In 1957 Sottsass artistic director of " Poltronova ". He experimented with the new material fiberglass and used it to develop contemporary furniture and lighting fixtures.

1958 started his collaboration with the office equipment manufacturer Olivetti, and soon caught his unconventional designs sensation, such as the design of the first Italian computer Olivetti Elea. His most famous design for Olivetti probably the Olivetti Valentine typewriter designed in 1968 red. She is now one of the best known design classics. The Pop Art influenced the interior of its " Guglielmo Bar " in Milan and furniture collections for Poltrona Frau 1965-1967. From Sottsass ' Stockholm time 1969 striped wooden cubes cabinets superbox come.

His designs turned against the representative character of the property objects; rather Sottsass brought the everyday culture in his designs playful expression. Sottsass was quickly becoming a leading proponent of " anti - design".

The " Mickey Mouse table " for the industrial design firm Bonacina (1972) and the " Yellow secretary chair " for Olivetti (1973 ) added his radical departure from the traditional design is an element of irony and humor added.

In 1980 he founded his own company, the " Ettore Sottsass Associati ". Was also very successful, which was founded in 1981 by his Memphis Design Group, a design office, ' announced the end of, the International Style, and linked his name with the turn of the emotional design and postmodernism.

In 1994, Sottsass created as part of the art project BUSSTOPS where architects such as Frank O. Gehry, Alessandro Mendini took part, a highly acclaimed bus stop at the King Platz in Hanover. It consists of 8 large yellow crosses as a symbol of the 20th century on a speckled stone base and a white roof.

Exhibitions of Sottsass ' life's work, there was, for example, at the Biennale in Venice in 1976, the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1994) and the Design Museum, London 2007.

Ettore Sottsass died in his Milan apartment of cardiac decompensation in the course of a viral flu.

Exhibitions

  • 2010: We Were Exuberant and Still Had Hope. Ettore Sottsass. Works from Stockholm, Centrum voor 1969 Marre Contemporaine Cultuure, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
  • 2002: Memphis - Arts / kitsch / cult, a design movement changed the world. Loos Haus Vienna, Austria.
  • 2002: Memphis - 21 years after the design revolution. Kunsthalle Krems, Austria.
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