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Ettore Sottsass
Milano, Italy

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Ettore Sottsass

Sottsass Associati

Via Melone 2
20121 Milano
Italy

T: + 39 02 87197195
F: + 39 02 87151457

www.sottsass.it
associati@sottsass.it

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INTERVIEWS

Colour, not decoration

by Katrin Spohr | 5/16/2023

Emanuele Stamuli is a naval architect and designs high-end stores, mainly for international, popular fashion brands, as well as residential projects and hip furniture. He tells us in an interview how he follows his own path with a rationalist approach to design, a soft spot for detail and sustainability.
ORGATEC 2022 – REVIEW

Flexibility for stability

by Anna Moldenhauer | 10/31/2022

Orgatec is back and with it a homely jigsaw puzzle that maps the development of different requirements in the working context since 2018. Our review.
RETAIL

Memphis in Cologne

by Anna Moldenhauer | 8/22/2022

In the Stollwerck-Haus in the Rhine metropolis, a unique retail design from the mind of Ettore Sottsass, the co-founder of the Memphis Group, is partly accessible again after careful restoration work.
DESIGN

A room within a room

by Anna Moldenhauer | 12/9/2021

With the true-to-the-original reconstruction of a large part of the "Casa Lana", the Triennale in Milan pays tribute to the work of the architect and designer Ettore Sottsass.
NEW WORK

Breaking the Grid

by Jeanette Kunsmann | 3/2/2021

With their Douglas House in London’s West End, Note Design Studio has created a new feel-good place for flexible working. In the process, the Swedish collective has given this 1930s building a gentle nudge and a slight wave.
DESIGN

What are they doing in there?

by Thomas Wagner | 9/14/2017

Ettore Sottsass would have turned 100 years old today. We still know far too little about the designer and architect who looked beyond the walls of the familiar.
DESIGN

Magically simple

by Thomas Wagner | 6/23/2017

He was fascinated by the material and never lost his delight in experimentation: On Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Le Stanze del Vetro are presenting sensational glass works by Ettore Sottsass.

FAIRS & EVENTS

The Donkey in the System

by Thomas Wagner | 4/20/2016

Salone 1: In Milan, well-being is the order of the day – Ettore patiently bears burdens,there are benches, small tables, and large sofas.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Sliced chair

1/25/2016

It’s back: “Slice” by Pierre Charpin. Martina Metzner spoke to the French designer about his unusual armchair.
DESIGN

Closing Fast 18:Even Dionysus needs a mirror

by Thomas Wagner | 12/18/2015

“Handle with Care” is the latest addition to Antonia Henschel’s series of “Objects” – this time they’re made of glass, china and ceramic.
DESIGN

Wear pine

11/11/2015

Do furniture design and fashion swing to the same rhythm? We had a look round in Cologne, London, Milan, New York, Paris and Stockholm: And started with color.
DESIGN

Macchina da scrivere: Ettore Sottsass and Olivetti

by Thomas Wagner | 7/1/2015

Typewriters are hybrids, combining elements of both tools and machines. As for their design, they remained as good as interchangeable for a long time. Ettore Sottsass put a stop to all that with his designs for Olivetti: the “Tekne” and “Praxis 48” models.
FAIRS & EVENTS

What only the giraffe knows

4/28/2015

This year during there were once again countless items of furniture and special moments during the Milan Salone. A small photo album of memories.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Milan, the full Monty!

4/6/2015

Given their sheer immensity, you need to plan your visit to the Salone and the Fuorisalone in Milan quite carefully. Find out below which events, places, shows and symposiums are the real musts.
FEATURED

Spearhead of an avant-garde of comfort

1/18/2015

Michele De Lucchi is “A&W Designer of the Year 2015”. So who is Michele De Lucchi? The last surviving champion of post-modernism, a traditionalist or a man of today after all? A close look at De Lucchi the designer AND the architect.

DESIGN

Anthology with friends

by Michael Peters | 3/16/2014

He owned a drugstore, but ever since his passion was design. He encouraged, motivated, he was design entrepreneur, consultant and museumsfounder. With Anthologie Quartett he edited designs by Ettore Sottsass, Elizabeth Garouste und Mattia Bonetti. A memorial to Rainer Krause, who died in June 2013.
MAGAZINE

Going vintage ain’t enough

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 6/16/2013

The Design Miami trade fair, which runs parallel to Art Basel, was not very convincing. It lacked a clear curatorial thrust, exciting exhibitions and statements. And not least there was no clear position on contemporary design, although this is so sorely needed.
MAGAZINE

Work wherever you want! Office worlds 2010 – part 1: of citizens, territories and islands

by Thomas Wagner | 11/8/2010

You will search in vain for a new paradigm or new typologies of work at the Orgatec 2010. Instead, people are busy working away at furniture systems that enable the temporary privacy of retreat in the midst of the open field of omnipresent communication.
MAGAZINE

Designers don't drink from paper cups

by Markus Frenzl | 8/7/2008

Achille Castiglioni, Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Richard Sapper talk in these short "Design Interviews", which are now out on DVD, about their paths to what was still, at that time, a new discipline, about their own development and careers, about their search for design solutions, which, for the most part, still owed greater allegiance to society than to industry.
DESIGN

Addio to Ettore Sottsass

by Peter Weiß | 1/8/2008

Ettore Sottsass died in his home in Milan aged 90 on the very last day of 2007. Not only in Italy, and not only in the world of design and architecture are people mourning the loss of a designer of genius, as the world has lost a great humanist. For Sottsass, who construed design as the incessant search for a possible metaphor of existence, the search has come to a dramatic end.