Memphis Milano
Casablanca Storage Unit
Price € 17.460,00
Great icon of Radical Design whose the Memphis group was the privileged interpreter, the Casablanca storage unit by Ettore Sottsass is a familiar image for every true design enthusiast. Displayed in some of the best museums in the sector, it exemplifies the aesthetics of an era in its forms. Presented in 1981 on the occasion of the first Memphis collective exhibition at the Arc 74 gallery in Milan, the Casablanca furniture abandons all functionalism to present itself as a real sculpture, a colorful totem full of ancestral and even vaguely disturbing suggestions. Entirely covered in plastic laminate, it has on its entire surface the characteristic "sponged" motif that Sottsass had designed for Abet Laminati a few years earlier and which became for him a sort of signature. The structure of the Carlton piece of furniture is based on a large central core which functions as a container, organized through doors and drawers, around which various shelves radiate, some straight and others inclined (the latter designed to house bottles of wine).
W.151 x D.39 x H.221 cm
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Memphis was born in 1980 as an expression of radical design embodied in the creative genius of Ettore Sottsass, a pivotal figure around which young designers and architects from all over the world gather. A unique, ingenious and futuristic idea inspires this group of promises of contemporary design who set to work to create a collection of objects capable of embodying not only the highest expression of the radical movement, but its explicit crowning molded by the wise hands of Ettore Sottsass, Aldo Cibic, Matteo Thun, Marco Zanini, Martine Bedin, Michele De Lucchi, Nathalie Du Pasquier and George Sowden.Read more
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Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) is one of the key figures in the history of Italian design. Artist, designer and architect, he is considered one of the founding fathers of Radical Design and has had an incalculable influence on the development of the discipline. Born in Austria to a family of Trentino-Tyrolean origins (his father, Ettore Sottsass Senior, was a famous architect), he grew up and graduated in Turin and then opened his own studio in Milan. However, Sottsass considered himself a citizen of the world and traveled extensively: from New York, where he worked in George Nelson's studio, to India, visited with his wife Fernanda Pivano, another great protagonist of the cultural debate of the time, the greatest expert in American literature in all Italy. It was this great set of stimuli and influences that allowed him to develop a revolutionary style, dominated by bright colors and extreme shapes, in complete contrast with the functionalist dictates of post-war industrial design. Expressed through the artistic direction of the Tuscan brand Poltronova and the foundation of the Memphis group, a veritable hotbed of talents that would set the tone for the whole style of Italian design of the 1980s. However, Sottsass was not only a breakthrough figure, but also an impeccable professional: with his creations for Olivetti he was the protagonist of an avant-garde technological enterprise in the 1960s, while with his studio Sottsass Associati he signed products that entered the catalogs of brands such as Artemide, Alessi, Venini, Zanotta, Glas Italia, Kartell and many others.Read more