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presented within a context of consumer product, as conceptual statements. Covered in bold and colorful, simulated custom laminates, they were precursors to
Memphis, a movement which came more than a decade later. Around this time, Sottsass said: "I didn't want to do any more consumerist products, because it was clear that the consumerist attitude was quite dangerous." As a result, his work from the late 1960s to the 1970s was defined by experimental collaborations with younger designers such as
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Sottsass also designed his own print. This was a squiggles print also known as
Bacterio print. For the print, Sottsass used inspiration from the surface texture and form of a Buddhist temple in Madurai, India, he then abstracted this detail into the squiggles he named Bacterio. This pattern was then
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Roberto Olivetti succeeded as head of the company, he named Sottsass artistic director and gave him a high salary, but Sottsass refused. Instead he created the Studio Olivetti independent of Olivetti and became instantly the most creative international centre of design associating research with
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After his time in the military, Sottsass opened his own architecture and design firm in Milan, Italy. Here he started designing furniture and experimented with different color, patterns and shapes. His work was often associated with pop culture with his brightly colored whimsical objects. His pieces
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Memphis Group was a postmodern, collaborative, architecture and design group founded by Sottsass in Milan Italy. The group focused heavily on furniture design with an emphasis on unconventional types. The designers became well known for their bright and bold pieces with clashing colors. At the
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Associati, primarily an architectural practice, also designed elaborate stores and showrooms for Esprit, identities for Alessi, exhibitions, interiors, consumer electronics in Japan, and furniture of all kinds. The studio was based on the cultural guidance of Ettore Sottsass and the work
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Olivetti in the 1960s, Sottsass developed a range of objects which were expressions of his personal experiences traveling in the United States and India. These objects included large altar-like ceramic sculptures and his "Superboxes", radical sculptural gestures
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creation and industrial strategy. His concern that his creativity would have been stifled by corporate work is documented in his 1973 essay "When I was a Very Small Boy".
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in London in 2007. In 2009, the Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht presented a re-construction of a Sottsass' exhibition
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STORIES OF HOUSES: Ernest Mourmans' House in Belgium, by Ettore Sottsass
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1843:"'A Sculpture You Can Live In': $ 15M Woodside Home of IDEO Founder"
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1945:"The Sir Misha Black Medal | Misha Black Awards"
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2118:Hans Höger on Ettore Sottsass: Existential Design
1062:Ettore Sottsass Jun.: Designer, Artist, Architect
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2077:A conversation with designer Ettore Sottsass
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1947:. mishablackawards.org.uk. Archived from
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1231:Ettore Sottsass and the poetry of things
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1723:"Ettore Sottsass Jr. / Superbox, 1966"
1419:Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti
1202:Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory
696:collection, the Gallery Mourmans, 1996
2103:The Life and Times of Ettore Sottsass
1480:Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography
1262:Pogrebin, Robin J. (1 January 2008).
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1104:Ettore Sottsass: Esercizi di Viaggio
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2026:Madlener, Adrian (17 March 2023).
1174:Ettore Sottsass: There is a Planet
1083:Ettore Sottsass: tutta la ceramica
915:W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Gallery
842:W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Gallery
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2108:Jennifer Kabat on Ettore Sottsass
1920:"Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical"
1885:Muschamp, Herbert (6 July 1997).
1596:"Ettore Sottsass @ Art + Culture"
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950:Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress
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970:Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical.
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1478:Radice, Barbara (1993).
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1111:Ettore Sottsass: Scritti
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798:Ghella house, Roma, 1993
618:mirror, Poltronova, 1970
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1188:Sottsass: 1000 Ceramics
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905:. The interiors of the
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1686:www.cooperhewitt.org
1132:Sottsass 700 disegni
1125:Sottsass: fotografie
1004:the Stedelijk Museum
903:Woodside, California
418:Royal College of Art
361:Museum of Modern Art
262:Ettore Sottsass and
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1709:Sottsass Associates
1446:. Timesonline.co.uk
1179:Francesca Zanella,
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871:Knoll International
840:Entry Gates of the
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818:Johanna Grawunder
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782:Johanna Grawunder
773:Johanna Grawunder
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