Limited Edition Of The "Alba" Lamp By Ettore Sottsass For Enel
View Similar Items
Limited Edition Of The "Alba" Lamp By Ettore Sottsass For Enel
About the Item
- Creator:Ettore Sottsass (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 12.6 in (32 cm)Width: 6.3 in (16 cm)Depth: 6.3 in (16 cm)
- Style:Post-Modern (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:2001
- Condition:Minor fading. The lamp is in perfect condition and shows no signs of wear.
- Seller Location:Roma, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6318230604422
Ettore Sottsass
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.
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. They 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's 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 imaginative and expressive in smaller, secondary furnishings such as lamps and chandeliers, and in table pieces and glassware that have playful and sculptural qualities.
It was as an artist that Ettore 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.
- Dorane Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for StilnovoBy Stilnovo, Ettore SottsassLocated in Little Burstead, EssexThis is one of the rarer twin bulb models of the Dorane lamps by the great Italian designer, Ettore Sottsasss, one of the founder members of the 'Memphis' group. Not only is this lam...Category
20th Century Italian Minimalist Table Lamps
MaterialsSteel
- Ettore Sottsass Don LampBy Ettore SottsassLocated in Brooklyn, NYPlayful reading lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Stilnovo. Aptly called the "Don", this lamp nods (or bows) its straight neck from an emerald cube base, topped by an adjustable shade in t...Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsMetal
$4,200 - Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide, ItalyBy Ettore Sottsass, ArtemideLocated in RHEEZERVEEN, OverijsselArchitecturally designed lamp with classical as well as a modern elements by Ettore Sottsass, one of the founders of the Memphis Milano Group. The lamp is now re-issued, this set is ...Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsChrome, Steel
- Don Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Stilnovo, 1970sBy Ettore SottsassLocated in London, EnglandEttore Sottsass (1917-2007) was a renowned Italian architect and designer, celebrated for his profound influence on 20th-century design and his pivotal role in the Memphis Group, a g...Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsMetal
- Ettore Sottsass ASHOKA Table Lamp for MEMPHIS srlBy Ettore SottsassLocated in Brooklyn, NYThe Ashoka table lamp is an early Ettore Sottsass lighting masterwork for the introductory 1981 MEMPHIS collection as iconoclastic a light/sculpture as yo...Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsMetal
$3,300 / item - Ashoka Large Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis MilanoBy Memphis Group, Ettore SottsassLocated in Kansas City, MOAshoka lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis, Milano, 1981. Excellent condition.Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsSteel