Paloma Elsesser’s Home Features This Ettore Sottsass Table

The Italian designer’s oeuvre extends beyond the iconic Ultrafragola mirror.
Paloma Elsesser and an Ettore Sottsass dining table
Left: Paloma Elsesser attends the 2022 Met Gala (photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue). Right: Ettore Sottsass for Zanotta Filicudi dining table, 1990

Model Paloma Elsesser has built her name on her impeccable fashion sense, so it stands to reason that her living space is also the height of style. Featured on the cover of AD’s February issue, her Brooklyn townhome is a textured, moody paradise (see Architectural Digest’s video home tour). To anchor the dining room, Elsesser and her design team at Gregory Rockwell Interiors picked Ettore Sottsass’s Filicudi dining table.

Composed of a wooden base supporting a silk-screened melamine top, the Filicudi was designed by Sottsass in 1992 for Zanotta. The influential Italian architect and product designer also created a cocktail table for the furniture company, along with a chest of drawers and an extendable rectangular version of the Filicudi, among other pieces.

The dining table is a bit of a deep cut from Sottsass, who founded the radical collective known as the Memphis Group. But it’s worthy of taking its place alongside other Sottsass pieces, particularly his wiggly Ultrafragola mirror, that have become favorites among stars like Bella Hadid, Frank Ocean and Lena Dunham.


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