Mirror By Ettore Sottsass

Ultrafragola Mirror

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Pink Wall Light

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Fibreglass Moulds

Materials

Mirror, Wood

Wall Mirror by Ettore Sottsass, Italy

$68,000

Wall Mirror by Ettore Sottsass, Italy

Located in New York, NY

Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) was an influential Italian architect and designer celebrated for his visionary approach that bridged functionality and artistic expression.

Category

Vintage 1960s Italian Wall Mirrors

Materials

Brass

By Superego Editions

Located in Asti, Piemonte

They enter a room with the Ultrafragola mirror, designed by Ettore Sottsass, on the wall.

Category

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Materials

H 47.25 in W 23.63 in D 0.79 in

Mid-Century Italian Wall Mirror with Brass Frame 'circa 1950s' - Large

Located in London, GB

Mid-Century Italian wall mirror with brass frame (circa 1950s). The large mirror is classically-shaped and distinctive in a Modern style. A beautiful aged patina will appear on the b...

Category

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Materials

Brass

Midcentury Squared Wall Mirror by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy 1960s

$10,295

H 24.81 in W 24.81 in D 1.58 in

Midcentury Squared Wall Mirror by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy 1960s

By Fontana Arte, Max Ingrand

Located in Rome, IT

Midcentury amazing squared wall mirror model 2377 mirrored coloured cut glass frame black wood fitting by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte. Made in Italy 29 - January - 1965. The origi...

Category

Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors

Materials

Metal

$3,203

H 31.5 in W 23.63 in D 0.79 in

Italian Mid-Century Modern Blue Wall Mirror, Glass, 1960s, Italy

Located in Brussels, BE

This mirror dates from the 1960s. The piece is from Italian origin.

Category

Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors

Materials

Glass, Mirror

$1,601

H 39.38 in W 13 in D 1.97 in

Mid Century Metal and Brass Mirror, Design by Santambrogio & De Berti, Italy 50s

By Santambrogio & De Berti

Located in Lucija, SI

Mid century modern black metall and brass mirror made in Italy in the 50s. Designed by Santambrogio & De Berti In excellent condition.

Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors

Materials

Metal, Brass

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Mirror By Ettore Sottsass For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the mirror by ettore sottsass you’re looking for. Each mirror by ettore sottsass for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using glass, mirror and plastic. If you’re shopping for a mirror by ettore sottsass, we have 17 options in-stock, while there are 27 modern editions to choose from as well. There are many kinds of the mirror by ettore sottsass you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. When you’re browsing for the right mirror by ettore sottsass, those designed in Modern and Mid-Century Modern styles are of considerable interest.

How Much is a Mirror By Ettore Sottsass?

A mirror by ettore sottsass can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $8,598, while the lowest priced sells for $1,823 and the highest can go for as much as $55,792.

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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Finding the Right Mirrors for You

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Styles to Know

An arched or sunburst mirror reads more decorative, while a plain rectangular frame lets the room around it stand out. Hang one above a vintage vanity or a mid-century modern dresser, or lean a larger floor mirror against the wall as a standalone piece.

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