‘The opportunity to secure Casa Lana came to us thanks to the Lana heirs and to the generosity of the Ettore Sottsass Archive,’ says Sammicheli. ‘We could not miss this opportunity due to the ...

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 ...

This pomo fever dream belongs to Ideo co-founder David Kelley–and is one of only three houses Sottsass built in the U.S. The raucous patterns, wild shapes, and vivid colors associated with the Memphis ...

When members of the Memphis design collective first presented their eclectic furnishings in Milan, they attracted so many gawkers that Ettore Sottsass feared there'd been a terrorist attack. He wasn't ...

The chaotic magic of NYCxDesign may be over now that it’s June, but there is still a lot to see this month. This edition includes a group show that interprets the woodlands and Wales at Tiwa Select, a ...

In the 1980s and early 1990s, garish swirling graphics and colorful geometric shapes ruled American TV screens, department stores and high school playgrounds. From Fisher Price toys to the opening ...

ROME – Ettore Sottsass, an Italian designer with an irreverent touch best known for creating Olivetti’s iconic red, plastic typewriter, has died, officials said Tuesday. He was 90. Sottsass died ...

Chances are you haven’t heard of Ettore Sottsass. Yes, those three sets of double consonants could trip anyone up, but if you care about design he’s a name you should know. Born in 1917, this Italian ...

Designed in 1965 by Ettore Sottsass for his friend, the lithographer and printer Giovanni Lana, Casa Lana in Milan is the latest acquisition for the permanent collection of the Triennale di Milano.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, garish swirling graphics and colorful geometric shapes ruled American TV screens, department stores and high school playgrounds. From Fisher Price toys to the opening ...