Ettore Sottsass For Knoll

Eastside Sottsass

Westside Chair

Knoll Italian Chairs

Mandarin Furniture

Geometric Sofa

Ettore Sottsass East Side

Materials

Metal, Aluminum

$1,250

H 31.5 in W 26 in D 24 in

1960s Eero Saarinen for Knoll Executive Dining Arm Chair in Black Leather

By Ettore Sottsass, Knoll

Located in Philadelphia, PA

Listed for sale is a 1960s executive armchair No. 71 USB designed by Eero Saarinen and produced by Knoll. This particular example retains part of its original 320 Park Avenue label, ...

Category

Vintage 1960s American Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Materials

Steel

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H 32.5 in W 26 in D 24 in

Six Ettore Sottsass Mandarin Chairs For Knoll

By Knoll, Ettore Sottsass

Located in Chicago, IL

Set of six "Mandarin Chairs" designed by Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) for Knoll, circa 1986 - 1988.

Ettore Sottsass pair of Eastside lounge chairs for Knoll Studio Italy / USA, 198

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H 33.5 in W 32 in D 31 in

Ettore Sottsass pair of Eastside lounge chairs for Knoll Studio Italy / USA, 198

By Knoll, Ettore Sottsass

Located in Skokie, IL

Ettore Sottsass pair of Eastside lounge chairs for Knoll Studio Italy / USA, 1983.

Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Steel

Ettore Sottsass Mandarin Chairs

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H 33 in W 24 in L 33 in

Ettore Sottsass Mandarin Chairs

By Ettore Sottsass, Knoll

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Pair of Ettore Sottsass Mandarin chairs for Knoll Studio designed in 1986.

Materials

Materials

Velvet

Rosso Wall Mirror

$1,395 / item

H 47.25 in W 34.65 in D 17.52 in

Müller Bar Cabinet in Metal

By Müller Möbelfabrikation

Located in Tilburg, NL

Müller Bar Cabinet in Metal. Germany. Design 1998, current production. Available in every RAL-color. A highlight for your office or your home: The cleverly designed bar cabinet KB 3...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary German Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars

Materials

Metal

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Ettore Sottsass For Knoll For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the ettore sottsass for knoll you’re looking for. Each ettore sottsass for knoll for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, steel and fabric. There are many kinds of the ettore sottsass for knoll you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. A ettore sottsass for knoll is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Modern and Mid-Century Modern styles are sought with frequency.

How Much is a Ettore Sottsass For Knoll?

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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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