Ettore Sottsass | A Radical Italian Architect / Un giorno a MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Nuovo York.

Un giorno a MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Nuovo York.

Questo è esposizione di Ettore Sottsass, un architetto Italiano. Il lavoro de Ettore è molto radical, sofisticato. Il colore è molto divertimento! Sono un designer, io rispetto Ettore per suo senso di design. Io spendo 2 ore guardando il suo bellissimo lavoro. Voglio visitare Musei Italiani en Milano per vedere più del Ettore Sottsass.
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Last weekend, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an Italian architect Ettore Sottsass’s work. I’ve seen a piece of Ettore's work here and there on Instagram/magazines but haven’t seen it as a collection. MET’s exhibition advertisement, which is everywhere in NYC, says ‘Design Radical!’

I was very intrigued...
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• architettura brutalistica | MET Breuer

If you have been to MET Breuer, you notice how brutal the architecture is (I love it!)
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• mobili design del Ettore | Source: Dezeen

A polymath guy, he has done a spectrum of design work from architectural drawings, furniture products, ceramic, textile design and machinery design. The overall body of work was meticulosity presented based on "types."
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Can you tell these furniture pieces were designed in the 1960s? The proportion, composition of materiality, playful color and finish that he put together is very unorthodox an surprising.
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He designed every-day functional objects with the utmost simplicity that each work seemed visually light and delight to look at.
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Ettore concocted the Valentine Portable Typewriter in 1968 with an expectation that this would become an everyday commodity.

• Macchina da scrivere per Olivetti | Source: cnd wall paper

“I worked sixty years of my life, and it seems the only thing I did is this fucking red machine. And it came out a mistake. It was supposed to be a very inexpensive portable, to sell in the market, like pens… Then the people at Olivetti said you cannot sell this.” (1993)
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• Source: Colore per Roman colonne cdn wallpaper

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What do you think? How valuable do think these experimentations in design and functionality are? Let me know your thoughts below!

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@Mintvilla, an ever-learning landscape architect