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Ettore Sottsass

Designer



Figure of reference of the international design, in sixty years of career, he was also an architect, urban planner, painter, traveler, photographer. Born in 1917, he graduated at the Polytechnic of Turin in 1939 and in 1947 he opened his own design studio in Milan. He drawed Elea 9003, the first Italian computer for Olivetti, and obtained the Compasso d'Oro in 1970 for the design of four typewriters. Active in the field of ceramic, enamel on copper, jewelry, glass, he expresses his creativity at the highest level, especially in furniture design. At the end of the seventies he collaborated with Alchimia, and in 1981 he was the promoter of Memphis, the group of international architects who changed the contemporary furniture. He was at the Venice Biennale in 1976, and has exhibited his works at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1994. He died in 2007.
 




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