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Carlton Room Divider

'Carlton' Room Divider and Bookcase by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano, Italy
'Carlton' Room Divider and Bookcase by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano, Italy

'Carlton' Room Divider and Bookcase by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano, Italy

$16,792Sale Price / item|20% Off

H 77.17 in W 74.81 in D 15.75 in

'Carlton' Room Divider and Bookcase by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano, Italy

By Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass

Located in London, GB

Probably the most iconic of all Ettore Sottsass' designs, the colourful Carlton is half room

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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Bookcases

Materials

Laminate, Wood

MEMPHIS "CARLTON" Cabinet / Ettore Sottsass (Italy) / PostModern
MEMPHIS "CARLTON" Cabinet / Ettore Sottsass (Italy) / PostModern

MEMPHIS "CARLTON" Cabinet / Ettore Sottsass (Italy) / PostModern

By Ettore Sottsass

Located in Tinton Falls, NJ

The totemic CARLTON room divider is a Memphis icon. The piece calls into question conventional

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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards

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Laminate, Wood

Carlton Wood Room Divider, by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano Collection
Carlton Wood Room Divider, by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano Collection

Carlton Wood Room Divider, by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano Collection

By Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Milano, Memphis Group

Located in La Morra, Cuneo

Here you are shown an authentic and perfect reproduction of the Carlton bookcase and room divider

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Ettore Sottsass Casablanca cabinet Memphis Milano 1981
Ettore Sottsass Casablanca cabinet Memphis Milano 1981

Ettore Sottsass Casablanca cabinet Memphis Milano 1981

$17,189

H 90.56 in W 63 in D 15.36 in

Ettore Sottsass Casablanca cabinet Memphis Milano 1981

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Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant

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Carlton Memphis Milano Bookcase or Room Divider by Ettore Sottsass, 1981
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H 76.78 in W 74.81 in D 15.75 in L 76.78 in

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Located in Munster, NRW

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Original "Carlton" Cabinet/ Sculpture, designed by Ettore Sottsass
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Located in Berlin, Berlin

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Located in Berlin, Berlin

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Carlton Designed by Ettore Sottsass

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Carlton Bookcase Roomdivider by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis, 1981

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Carlton Room Divider Designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1981 for Memphis Milano

Carlton Room Divider Designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1981 for Memphis Milano

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Memphis W. Carlton; bookcase room divider by Ettore Sottsass

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H 76.78 in W 15.75 in D 74.81 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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