Live Auction 2854Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design
ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)
Lot 236

ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)

A CENTER TABLE AND SIX 'CREEK' CHAIRS, CIRCA 1980

Closed12 June 2014

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ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)
A CENTER TABLE AND SIX 'CREEK' CHAIRS, CIRCA 1980
plastic laminate, painted and chromed steel, chairs produced by Bieffeplast, molded polyproylene, painted tubular steel
table: 28¾ in. (77.5 cm.) high, 59 in. (150 cm.) wide, 31½ in. (80 cm.) deep
chairs: each 30 1/3 in. high
Beiffeplast label to underside of one chair (7)

Ettore Sottsass;
Private collection, Europe.

Specialist note

Sottsass' appreciation of the emotive qualities of color in his designs is well documented. Of equal interest to him, where the possibilities of neutralizing color in order to decondition the observer from seeking personal identity or a sense of possession from these objects.

'Grey is... a colour that will create some problems for anyone who would like to use it for advertising detergents, toothpaste, vermouth, aperatifs in general, Coca-Cola, elettro-domesti, deodorants and all that.' - E. Sottsass, quoted Ettore Sottsass, Jan Burney, New York, 1991, p. 122.