Ettore Sottsass Vase For Bitossi

Large ceramic vase decorated with a black and white frieze. Edited by Bitossi In excellent condition. Ettore Sottsass Jr. Architect (1917 - 2007) Ettore Sottsass Jr. is considered one of the most important designers of the 20th century. He is internationally recognized as having renewed the approach to design and architecture, through a dimension both spiritual and sensory in the definition of domestic spaces, giving great importance to color and light. Consultant for Poltronova in 1957 and then for Olivetti in 1958, Sottsass designs furniture, begins research on ceramics, color and materials, as well as figurative languages. Foreshadowing the experiences of radical architecture, Sottsass stands out as a tutelary figure for young protest groups such as Superstudio or Archizoom, who will seek during the years 1960-1970 a refoundation of architecture outside the dogmas of functionalist culture. . Between 1966 and 1974, Sottsass stopped architecture as such to devote himself to writing and drawing and took an active part in theoretical debates. He produces photographs, installations, conceptual projects, which question the language of architecture; he thinks about the environment, writes notes on anthropology, questioning himself, according to Barbara Radice, on the very meaning of "building". Sottsass will co-edit the first issue of the underground magazine of Italian counter-culture: Pianeta fresco, in 1968. After studying in Turin in 1939 and having worked for some time with his father, Ettore Sottsass Jr. established his agency in Milan in 1947. Architect, designer, artist, consultant for various design firms, publisher and editor of magazines (including Casabella in the 1970s), Sottsass has never ceased to develop his practice at the crossroads of disciplines. Winner of numerous prizes (he received the Italian Compas d'or award four times), participating in numerous international exhibitions (including Italy: The New Domestic Landscape at MoMA in New York in 1972), Sottsass is today present in the collections of the largest museums. He co-founded the groups Global Tools (1973), Alchimia (1976), Memphis (1981) and in 1982 founded Studio Sottsass Associati.