Live Auction 2392Historical Design Reflects: The East 61st Street Years
Christie’s roundel
Lot 421

ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)

A STERLING SILVER 'ALASKA' VASE, 1982

Closed8 December 2009

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ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)
A Sterling Silver 'Alaska' Vase, 1982
designed for Memphis, Milan, manufactured by Rossi & Arcandi, Vicenza
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high
stamped Memphis Milano and with Italian hallmarks

Specialist note

cf. H. Höger, Ettore Sottsass Jun.: Designer, Artist, Architect, Tübingen/Berlin, 1993, p. 187 for an illustration of another 'Alaska' vase.
Exhibition catalogue, Memphis: Céramique, Argent, Verre, 1981-1987, Marseilles, Musée de Marseille, 1991, p. 90 for another illustration.