Ettore Sottsass Floor Lamp Model Beam 1

Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) was an Italian designer and architect whose work radically reshaped postwar design by challenging the dominance of strict modernism. After studying archit...

Ettore Sottsass was an influential Italian architect and industrial designer best known for challenging the rigid rules of modernism through bold colors, playful forms, and unconvent...

Ettore Sottsass was one of the most influential designers and architects of the 20th century. Born in Austria in 1917 and raised in Italy, Sottsass became known for his bold use of c...

Ettore Sottsass was an influential Italian architect and industrial designer best known for his bold, colorful, and unconventional approach to design. Born in 1917 in Innsbruck, Aust...

Tahiti, a masterpiece by Ettore Sottsass, is an ironic lamp with a zoomorphic shape that recalls childhood games: a lamp is hidden in the head, ideal for lighting a table. The base w...

Malabar smashes the established, solid and reassuring image of functionalist furniture, producing a sensation of surprise and food for thought. It combines contrasting forms and colo...

ASHOKA by Ettore Sottsass, which takes its name from the emperor of the Maurya Empire, resembles an unstable stack of playful geometric forms. Though it seems “de-structured,” the la...

Ettore Sottsass grew up in Turin, and graduated in architecture from the Turin Polytechnic in 1939. In 1947, he founded his own studio in Milan. In 1956, Sottsass moved to New York w...