ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)
ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)

'MOBILE GIALLO' A CABINET, 1988-89

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ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)
'MOBILE GIALLO' A CABINET, 1988-89
produced for Design Gallery Milano, Italy, from the 'Bharata' series, burled maple, briar, ebonized oak veneer, with gilt-wood details
57½ in. (146 cm.) high, 51¾ in. (131.4 cm.) wide, 18 in. (45.7 cm.) deep

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cf. K. M. Armer, Albrecht Bangert and Ettore Sottsass: 80s Style, New York, 1990, p. 21 and cover for an example of this model;
M. Filler, A. Isozaki, H. Konagaya, S. Kuramata, R. Miyake, E. Sottsass, Ettore Sottsass: Advanced Studies 1986-1990, Tokyo, 1990, p. 53 for examples of this model; B. Radice, Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography, New York, 1993, p. 210 for an example of this model;
J. G. Argell, Ettore Sottsass: La Darrera Oportunitat d'Esser Avantguarda, exhibition catalogue, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, 1993, p. 57 for an example of this model; H. Hoger, Ettore Sottsass: Designer and Architect, Berlin, 1993, p. 114;
Exhibition catalogue, Ettore Sottsass, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1994, p. 102 for an example of this model;
R. Labaco, Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York, 2006, p. 130 for an example of this model.

Other examples of this design were exhibited in Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March - June 2006; Ettore Sottsass: La Darrera Oportunitat d'Esser Avantguarda at the Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, March - May 1993; and Ettore Sottsass at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, April - September 1994.

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