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ETTORE SOTTSASS Flying Carpet Armchair for Bedding Brevetti
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in LAGUNA BEACH, CA
ETTORE SOTTSASS "Tappeto Volante" (Flying Carpet) Armchair for Bedding Brevetti The "Flying Carpet
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Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Armchairs

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Fabric, Textile, Velvet, Foam, Wood, Fruitwood

Ettore Sottsass Tappeto Volante - Flying Carper armchair for Bedding Brevetti
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Padova, IT
carpeting. It comes with the original Bedding Brevetti Tappeto Volante catalog.
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

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Ettore Sottsass Flying Carpet Armchair by Bedding Brevetti 1970s Italy
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
Bedding Brevetti in Casalguidi during the 1970s. For the realization of this iconic piece, Ettore
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Fabric, Wood, Velvet

Ettore Sottsass Flying Carpet Armchair by Bedding Brevetti 1970s Italy
Ettore Sottsass Flying Carpet Armchair by Bedding Brevetti 1970s Italy
$12,192 Sale Price
38% Off
H 31.11 in W 76.38 in D 42.13 in
Fauteuil Tappeto Volante d’Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Saint ouen, FR
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) Circa 1974 Édition Bedding Brevetti Wood, polyurethane foam, velvet
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Vintage 1970s Armchairs

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Wood

Fauteuil Tappeto Volante d’Ettore Sottsass
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$21,102
H 27.96 in W 70.87 in D 44.1 in

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Ettore Sottsass “Tappeto Volante” Armchair for Bedding Brevetti, Italy, 1974
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Padova, IT
Ettore Sottsass "Tappeto Volante" armchair designed in 1974, limited serial production by Bedding
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Ettore Sottsass “Tappeto Volante” Armchair For Bedding Brevetti, Italy, 1974
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Brussels, BE
Ettore Sottsass “Tappeto Volante” armchair for Bedding Brevetti, Italy, 1974.
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

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Canapé Tapis Volant - Circa 1974
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
d'Ettore Sottsass Circa 1974 217 x 107 x 65 cms Édité par bedding brevetti Italy Bois/ tissus / velours
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1970s More Art

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Wood

Flying Carpet by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
velvet H 68.5 x D 107 x W 183 cm Brevetti Bedding Edition Ettore Sottsass 1917-2007 Sottsass
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Vintage 1970s European Armchairs

Flying Carpet by Ettore Sottsass
Flying Carpet by Ettore Sottsass
H 27.17 in W 42.13 in D 72.05 in
Ettore Sottsass Flying Carper Sofa for Bedding Brevetti
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Padova, IT
Ettore Sottsass designed this sofa after having known the Indian culture. A crucial journey in his formation is that of 1961 in India, undertaken with Fernanda Pivano. On this journe...
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Fabric, Velvet, Wood

Flying Carpet by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
velvet H 68.5 x D 107 x W 183 cm Brevetti Bedding Edition Ettore Sottsass 1917-2007 Sottsass
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Vintage 1970s European Armchairs

Materials

Zitan

Flying Carpet by Ettore Sottsass
Flying Carpet by Ettore Sottsass
H 27.17 in W 42.13 in D 72.05 in

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Ettore Sottsass for sale on 1stDibs

An architect, industrial designer, philosopher and provocateur, Ettore Sottsass led a revolution in the aesthetics and technology of modern design in the late 20th century. He was a wild man of the Radical Design movement that swept Italy in the late 1960s and ’70s, rejecting rationalism and modernism in favor of ever-more outrageous imaginings in lighting and furniture such as mirrors, lamps, chairs and tables.

Sottsass was the oldest member of the Memphis Group — a design collective, formed in Milan in 1980, whose irreverent, spirited members included Alessandro Mendini, Michele de Lucchi, Michael Graves and Shiro Kuramata. All had grown disillusioned by the staid, black-and-brown “corporatized” modernism that had become endemic in the 1970s. Memphis (the name stemmed from the title of a Bob Dylan song) countered with bold, brash, colorful, yet quirkily minimal designs for furniture, glassware, ceramics and metalwork. 

The Memphis Group mocked high-status by building furniture with inexpensive materials such as plastic laminates, decorated to resemble exotic finishes such as animal skins. Their work was both functional and — as intended — shocking.

Even as it preceded the Memphis Group's formal launch, Sottsass's iconic Ultrafragola mirror — in its conspicuously curved plastic shell and radical pops of pink neon — embodies many of the collective's postmodern ideals. 

Sottsass created innovative furnishings for the likes of Artemide, Knoll, Zanotta and Poltronova, where he reigned as artistic director for nearly two decades beginning in 1958. His most-recognized designs appeared in the first Memphis collection, issued in 1981 — notably the multihued, angular Carlton room divider and Casablanca bookcase. As pieces on 1stDibs demonstrate, however, Sottsass is at his most inspired and expressive in smaller, secondary furnishings such as lamps and chandeliers, and in table pieces and glassware that have playful and sculptural qualities.

Sottsass left the Memphis Group in 1985 in order to concentrate on the growth of Sottsass Associati, a design and architecture consultancy he cofounded in 1980. 

It was as an artist that Sottsass was celebrated in his life, in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in 2006, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art a year later. Even then Sottsass’s work prompted critical debate. And for a man whose greatest pleasure was in astonishing, delighting and ruffling feathers, perhaps there was no greater accolade. That the work remains so revolutionary and bold — that it breaks with convention so sharply it will never be considered mainstream — is a testament to his genius.

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Armchairs have run the gamut from prestige to ease and everything in between, and everyone has an antique or vintage armchair that they love.

Long before industrial mass production democratized seating, armchairs conveyed status and power.

In ancient Egypt, the commoners took stools, while in early Greece, ceremonial chairs of carved marble were designated for nobility. But the high-backed early thrones of yore, elevated and ornate, were merely grandiose iterations of today’s armchairs.

Modern-day armchairs, built with functionality and comfort in mind, are now central to tasks throughout your home. Formal dining armchairs support your guests at a table for a cheery feast, a good drafting chair with a deep seat is parked in front of an easel where you create art and, elsewhere, an ergonomic wonder of sorts positions you at the desk for your 9 to 5.

When placed under just the right lamp where you can lounge comfortably, both elbows resting on the padded supports on each side of you, an upholstered armchair — or a rattan armchair for your light-suffused sunroom — can be the sanctuary where you’ll read for hours.

If you’re in the mood for company, your velvet chesterfield armchair is a place to relax and be part of the conversation that swirls around you. Maybe the dialogue is about the beloved Papa Bear chair, a mid-century modern masterpiece from Danish carpenter and furniture maker Hans Wegner, and the wingback’s strong association with the concept of cozying up by the fireplace, which we can trace back to its origins in 1600s-era England, when the seat’s distinctive arm protrusions protected the sitter from the heat of the period’s large fireplaces.

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