When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Located in the new Herzog & de Meuron-designed Schaudepot space, the exhibition sees the ...

The Met Breuer presents "Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical," bringing together a vast array of works from the artist's six-decade career. Ettore Sottsass and Perry King, Valentine portable typewriter ...

The Met Breuer's exhibition makes the case that it wasn’t just an aesthetic Sottsass unleashed on the world, but a particular way of interpreting the past and imagining the future. Barbara Radice, ...

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened its doors to Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical, a new exhibition set to explore and reevaluate the work of the influental 20th-century designer on the ...

Creating during an era ripe with progressive thinking and monumental shifts—namely, Italy’s post-war economic prosperity and the social changes of the 60s and 70s—the exhibition’s curator, Gean Moreno ...

Ettore Sottsass, father of Memphis, drew his autobiography in a sketchbook–and it’s a trip. There’s plenty of scholarship to help us understand Sottsass, but in his sketchbook he provided a handy ...

Boldly shaped and coloured designs by Memphis group founder Ettore Sottsass are on display alongside some of the historic artefacts they reference, and contemporary objects they in turn influenced, at ...

Best known as the founder of the experimental Memphis group (1981-1987), Ettore Sottsass was a prolific designer who produced six decades worth of work that spanned every medium from furniture to ...

August is always a bit of tranquil month compared to the event-filled design happenings of April or September, so if you haven't already taken advantage of the calm before the ensuing fashion and ...

The late Ettore Sottsass, who in the 1980s joined the pop-culture firmament as the founder of the Memphis design group, once quipped that being the subject of a retrospective was “a bit macabre… a ...

Boldly shaped and coloured designs by Memphis group founder Ettore Sottsass are on display alongside some of the historic artefacts they reference, and contemporary objects they in turn influenced, at ...