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This oversize volume (9.5x13.5") presents full-size b&w plates of the completed projects and working drawings that were carried out in the 1960s and 1970s by the designer Sottsass, who was, for 30 years, a design consultant for Olivetti and founded the design group Memphis. More than simply design projects, the works in this volume engage with symbolic ideas common to conceptual art, including the creation of symbolic beds, doors, rooms, and architectural forms in the barren landscape of Spain. Distributed by Rizzoli. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass is celebrated internationally for his contribution to architecture, industrial and furniture design, ceramics, jewelry, crafts, graphic design, and photography. He founded the Memphis group, and through its startling, eclectic and irreverent aesthetic he dominated furniture and interior style for over a decade. Almost every area of modern design displays his influence. Featuring over 100 full-page illustrations - photographs, architectural drawings, sketches, collages - this monograph explores Sottsass's work in all his many fields of activity, including his world-famous office products for Olivetti, and his colorful Memphis furniture. Barbara R...
The work of architect and designer Ettore Sottsass encapsulates the italian achievement in design since the Second World War, This book examines the paradoxes and contradictions of his career. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso. Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and lighting that continue to inspire design minds today with their flamboyance and use of color. Author Deyan...
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"In order to allow us to listen to our thoughts, someone came up with the idea of inventing words. Someone thought that the sound of the words could in some way represent the wanderings of our thoughts, of some of our thoughts. Someone else got the idea of representing thoughts by making marks, by making them with light, with something you could see. I make marks. What I mean is that I always, and only, draw in order to represent certain thought that pursue me. These thoughts trace out the forms, dimensions, weight, materials, colors and temperatures to use in building the stage onto which I, or we, will drag existence, including - in the theater set - all the furniture, curtains, lamps, and objects in general - you know, vases for flowers, plates for eating, baskets for bread (if there is any) or fruit (if there is any) and so on ... (Ettore Sottsass, 1997)"--Back cover.
The work of architect and designer Ettore Sottsass encapsulates the italian achievement in design since the Second World War, This book examines the paradoxes and contradictions of his career.