$8,678
H 35.44 in Dm 15.75 in
Italian Firenze Yellow Glass Chandelier, Ettore Sottsass For Venini, 1990
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Brussels, BE
Italian Firenze Yellow Glass Chandelier, Ettore Sottsass For Venini, 1990
Glass
$9,678 / item
H 31.5 in Dm 15.75 in
21st Century Firenze Pendant Light in Multicolour by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Venini
Located in murano, IT
Regardless of their size, small or large, the luminous sculptures by Ettore Sottsass bring to mind
Glass
$1,947 / item
H 10.24 in Dm 15.75 in
Venini Firenze Flush Light in Crystal & Sapphire by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Firenze flush light in handmade blown glass with decorative elements in opaline and transparent
Art Glass
$8,833 / item
H 31.5 in Dm 15.75 in
Venini Firenze Pendant Light in Brown and Yellow by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Firenze suspension lamp, designed by Ettore Sottsass and manufactured by Venini, features handmade
Blown Glass
$6,267
H 39.38 in Dm 15.75 in
Italian modern yellow glass chandelier Firenze, Ettore Sottsass for Venini, 1990
By Ettore Sottsass, Venini
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern yellow glass chandelier Firenze, Ettore Sottsass for Venini, 1990. Florence model
Metal
$2,133 / item
H 10.24 in Dm 15.75 in
21st Century Firenze Flush Light in Crystal/Sapphire by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Venini
Located in murano, IT
Regardless of their size, small or large, the luminous sculptures by Ettore Sottsass bring to mind
Glass
Vittorio Mazzuconni Firenze Bowl Silver-Plated Vide Poche Vase Post-Modern
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Chula Vista, CA
vide poche or vase). Designed and signed by Vittorio Mazzucconi, Firenze. Stamped Made in Italy
Silver Plate
$6,508
H 28.15 in Dm 51.19 in
Ettore Sottsass Italian Midcentury Brass Wood Dining Room Table for Poltronova
By Ettore Sottsass, Poltronova
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian midcentury modern design dining room table designed by Ettore Sottsass and produced by
Metal, Brass
Ettore Sottsass "Firenze" Chandelier Venini Glass, Signed
By Ettore Sottsass, Venini
Located in New York, NY
Multicolored amber stacked glass Firenze ceiling light.
Metal
Ettore Sotsass for Venini Murano Firenze Teal Glass Flush Light Fixture, 1995
By Ettore Sottsass, Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ettore Sotsass for Venini Murano Firenze fresh teal art glass flush light fixture, 1995. Signed and
Murano Glass
Ettore Sottsass Mirror by Poltronova Firenze
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in LYON, FR
Mirror in plastic ABS white with neon pink. Steel back. Production from 1970. Sticker Poltronova.
Murano Sputnik Spherical Green Glass and Brass Chandelier
Located in Roma, Lazio
A fantastic emerald green sputnik, with a surprising design and for its very low height, which allows it to fit in both high and low ceilings. Very elegant, it will furnish and decor...
Brass
$2,360 / item
H 33.47 in W 17.72 in D 20.08 in
Giraffe dining Chair in Solid Brazilian Wood by Juliana Vasconcellos
By Juliana Lima Vasconcellos
Located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
The Giraffe dining chair was designed with soft curves and slender, but with volume, bringing comfort and elegance. The base structure was thought with three feet. The upholstered se...
Wood
$9,255 / item
H 35.44 in W 63 in D 27.56 in
Brass and Alabaster Mobile Chandelier by Glustin Luminaires
By Glustin Creation
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Mobile kinetic chandelier made of patinated brass with a round counterweight and two enlighten alabaster globes. Original design by Glustin Luminaires.
Alabaster, Brass
Pair of Murano Glass Wall Sconces, Art Deco Style, in Stock
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of Murano glass wall sconces, in stock Fume color and horizontal striation texture Black opaline finials and brass accents Art Deco inspired design. Gives off warm beams of lig...
Brass
Clear Murano Leaves Flush Mount
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Italian Murano glass flush mount with clear textured glass leaves / Made in Italy in the style of Barovier e Toso, circa 1960s Measures: Diameter 23.5 inches, height 8.5 inch...
Murano Glass
$2,200 / item
H 21 in W 4 in D 4 in
Serpentine Vertical Ceramic Wall Sconce by Farrah Sit - Single or Mirrored Pair
By Farrah Sit
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this sandy slipcast ceramic wall sconce, generous curves are paired with crisp edges and the repetition of geometry to create a flow. The sconce snakes up and off the wall, a scul...
Brass
$17,084Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 69.3 in W 137.8 in D 90.56 in
21st Century Ej Ee Bed Upholstered Velvet Headboard Made in Portugal by Malabar
Located in RIO TINTO, PT
The Postmodernism movement is notoriously difficult to define. So the best way to characterize this elusive art movement is that it’s a reaction against the utopian ideals of moderni...
Cotton, Wood
$2,477 / item
H 11.8 in W 11.8 in D 7.5 in
Tulip Organic Modern Contemporary Wall Sconce, Wall Light in White Plaster
By Hannah Woodhouse
Located in London, GB
Handmade Tulip organic modern wall light/ wall sconce, in silky smooth white plaster, created by artist Hannah Woodhouse in her London studio. Contemporary organic modern design insp...
Plaster
Basurto 01 Contemporary Wooden and Fabric Stool
By Colección Estudio, Difane
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
A tribute to the architectural style that characterized Mexico City during the mid-20th century. Inspired by its lines, symmetry, volumes and shapes, each piece is a miniature abstra...
Hardwood
Venini Fungo Pendant Light in Gray and White by Massimo Vignelli
By Massimo Vignelli, Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Glass hanging pendant or suspension light with an interesting shape and two-tone coloring. Its sleek design and muted color pallette make it a modern, simple and understated lighting...
Art Glass
$1,768 / item
H 15.75 in Dm 43.31 in
Contemporary Art Deco Mint green and Red powder coated Carousel 5 arms pendant
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Carousel suspension lamp has a delicate balance of form and function that produces a quiet, modern light ambiance for all to savour, with its Contemporary Art Deco lines. The struct...
Metal
Ondamarmo Vulcano Onyx Matte Polished Side Table
Located in AVENZA CARRARA, IT
The Ondamarmo series by Federica Elmo includes 6 objects: The extra large dining table, two smaller size tables, three shelves, and a tray designed as an evolution of the shapes of t...
Onyx
Aperture 4
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
The Aperture series was created to provide a beautiful quality of light by combining bounce and ambient glow. The light source is held in a hand-spun perforated brass dome on one sid...
Brass
$2,000Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 17.72 in Dm 14.97 in
Soda Blown Murano Glass High Coffee Table in Petrol by Yiannis Ghikas
By Yiannis Ghikas, Miniforms
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soda was born upside-down, with a puff of air. It weighs 20 kilos, and it is blown, drawn out and shaped by three master glassmakers. The result is a single volume of glass with thre...
Blown Glass
Mawu Chair in Snow by Laura Gonzalez
By laura gonzalez
Located in Paris, FR
Original chair in golden oak, satin finish. Flared legs, backrest and seat upholstered in a textured cream fabric by Dedar.
Oak, Fabric, Bouclé
Anna Karlin Lantern Stack
By Anna Karlin
Located in New York, NY
Sculptural forms are stacked along a hand-finished tube running from floor to ceiling, with a central light source providing a soft, organic glow which accentuates the inherent textu...
Steel
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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