Just in time for New York’s design week, the SoHo gallery Raisonné has unveiled a sweeping five-decade survey of the late revolutionary Italian architect and designer, Ettore Sottsass. A maestro of ...

In an unusually frank press release sent out last Friday, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam announced the cancellation of a much-anticipated spring show, the first Dutch retrospective of pioneering ...

An upcoming exhibition at the Met Breuer will examine the works of Ettore Sottsass (1917 – 2001), the celebrated Italian architect and designer who founded the Memphis group. Ettore Sottsass: Design ...

Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) is probably best known for founding the Memphis Group, a Milan-based collective of young designers who produced brightly colored, asymmetrical furniture, lamps, and ...

Although Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass is perhaps most famous in the United States for his legendary design collective, Memphis, his life and career involve far, far more, as a ...

Creating during an era ripe with progressive thinking and monumental shifts—namely, Italy’s post-war economic prosperity and the social changes of the 60s and 70s—the exhibition’s curator, Gean Moreno ...

In the 1980s and early 1990s, garish swirling graphics and colorful geometric shapes ruled American TV screens, department stores and high school playgrounds. From Fisher Price toys to the opening ...

Exhibitions documenting the life and work of Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) abound this year as galleries and museums – such as The Met and Le Stanze del Vetro – celebrate what would have been the ...

The Met Breuer's exhibition makes the case that it wasn’t just an aesthetic Sottsass unleashed on the world, but a particular way of interpreting the past and imagining the future. Barbara Radice, ...

Chances are you haven’t heard of Ettore Sottsass. Yes, those three sets of double consonants could trip anyone up, but if you care about design he’s a name you should know. Born in 1917, this Italian ...

When Italian architect Ettore Sottsass launched the controversial collection of furnishings known as Memphis at the Milan Furniture Fair in 1981, the design world was shocked. “It appalled some and ...