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Property from the Collection of Mr. Luc d’Iberville Moreau, former Director of Montreal‘s Musée des Arts Décoratifs

ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)

A 'MOBILE GAILLO' CHEST OF DRAWERS, CIRCA 1988

Details

ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)
A 'MOBILE GAILLO' CHEST OF DRAWERS, CIRCA 1988
from the 'Bharata' series, edited by Design Gallery Milano, stained wood, briar, gilt wood
57 ½ in. (146 cm.) high, 51 7/8 in. (132 cm.) wide, 18 in. (45.7 cm.) deep

Literature

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 another example of this model.

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Lot Essay

Other cabinets of this design have been 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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