Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical
July 21–October 8, 2017
This new edition of the acclaimed monograph—packed with beautiful photographs from the extensive Sottsass archives—explores the artist's entire career.
Buy NowA 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. This exhibition reevaluates Sottsass's career in a presentation of key works in a range of media—including architectural drawings, interiors, furniture, machines, ceramics, glass, jewelry, textiles and pattern, painting, and photography. The exhibition presents Sottsass's work in dialogue with ancient and contemporaneous objects that inspired him, as well as his influence on designers working today. These juxtapositions offer new insight into his designs, situating him within a broader design discourse that reveals him as a true design radical.
"... an invigorating, illuminating experience." —New York Times
Ettore Sottsass (Italian [born Austria], 1917–2007). "Carlton" Room Divider (detail), 1981. Wood, plastic laminate, 76 3/4 x 74 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (194.9 x 189.9 x 40 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, 1997 (1997.460.1a–d)
