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...Work by Ettore Sottsass, the founder of Memphis, has long been sought after, and peers including Alessandro Mendini are becoming expensive to acquire....
...Memphis, co-founded with Ettore Sottsass in 1980, became a household name with its vivid, postmodern designs. But Branzi became tired of what he perceived to be its overly formal, stylised wares....
...“I like thinking about how the different colours and shapes talk to each other,” she says, citing inspirations from vintage Venini glassware to the designs of Ettore Sottsass and Carlo Scarpa....
...Mari was part of an optimistic generation of Italian designers serving expanding consumer markets, which included Cini Boeri and Ettore Sottsass....
...“We are proud to be the first country that . . . blocks, as a precaution, the sale of food produced in laboratories whose effects on the health of consumer citizens are currently unknown,” Ettore Prandini...
...It was designed for Olivetti by Ettore Sottsass in 1968, and though it has sat on my desk as a reassuring presence for years, without once being used, I would never part with it....
...to Llanos Molendo’s tango “Jalousie” recreates in every detail a scene from Ettore Scola’s 1983 film Le Bal....
...Ettore Sottsass designed them for Alessi in 1989. I checked....
...“Then came a big focus on the Memphis Group — Ettore Sottsass, bright colours and Italian radical design....
...Just as Ettore Sottsass and his collective rocked the design establishment in the early ’80s with their thick black lines, pop colours and flat, geometric laminate shapes and forms, More Is More aims to...
...If a messy desk is your problem, get organised with stylish solutions. I’m a fan of the Silene desk tray by Ettore Sottsass, available from Covent Garden’s Choosing Keeping....
...Its designer was Lana’s friend, Ettore Sottsass, one of the most influential of Milan’s designers and founder of the Memphis Group, which upended Italian design in the 1980s with a blast of garish, often...
...In 1981, at the age of 24, Bordeaux-born du Pasquier became a founding member of Memphis Milano, the outré design and architecture movement started by Ettore Sottsass, known for its boldly colour-blocked...
...working often alone and reluctant to push his own legend, Mangiarotti has been undeservedly squeezed out of the crowded canon of postwar architecture and design in favour of more flamboyant figures like Ettore...
...Their master bedroom is defined by a towering white-and-turquoise Ettore Sottsass totem and an abstract fresco by Emil Michael Klein (Nicoletta commissioned him to paint directly onto the ceiling); in the...
...The progressive art and architecture movement established by Ettore Sottsass in Milan in 1980 hovers in the background of both their imaginations and, indeed, their respective personal collections....
...“Ettore was a humanist who knew how to make the everyday desirable. He was the Steve Jobs of his era,” says Boeri....
...That this contemporary streetwear style is combined with, as Winsth explains, a direct influence of Italian postmodernist designer Ettore Sottsass’s Carlton room divider (1981) seems to neatly sum up the...
...In the 1950s, Ettore Tomaselli, who had been working at the motorcycle company Ducati in Bologna, emigrated to Morocco, where he opened two Italian restaurants in Casablanca....
...Formed in Milan at the beginning of the decade, it was led by Ettore Sottsass, the flamboyant designer renowned for his blood-red Olivetti “Valentine” typewriter....
...The store is a tribute to the decorative arts, past and present, and contains an extraordinary collection of furniture, objets and sculpture, by designers including Gio Ponti, André Dubreuil and Ettore Sottsass...
...Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the previous bank chief who was under investigation by Italian police in a money-laundering inquiry, was sacked after the bank’s board denounced him in May 2012 for dereliction of...
...As will Ettore Sottass’s 1986 Manhattan Trolley (€1,860, memphis-milano.com) But if I’m shaking the drinks, it’s got to be the gloriously trashy octagonal red snakeskin bar cart by 1970s designer Karl Springer...
...Prestige wine glasses by Luisa Beccaria, $255 per set of two Handcrafted in Italy in a variety of colours. artemest.com ES corkscrew by Ettore Sottsass for Alessi, £75 This corkscrew brings even more...
...Founded by Ettore Sottsass, who brought together the collective of designers and makers known as the Memphis Group in 1980, the gang first showed together in Milan in 1981....
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