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"Ettore Sottsass: the glass", exhibition view, Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, 2017. © Ettore Sottsass by SIAE
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"Ettore Sottsass: the glass", exhibition view, Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, 2017. © Ettore Sottsass by SIAE
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"Ettore Sottsass: the glass", exhibition view, Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, 2017. © Ettore Sottsass by SIAE
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"Ettore Sottsass: the glass", exhibition view, Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, 2017. © Ettore Sottsass by SIAE
“Glass is an incredible medium, at once mysterious, transparent and fragile” – Sottsass said during one of his last interviews. “Needless to say, beyond glass one finds a whole universe of centuries-old traditions. For one of the first Triennale exhibitions, after the war, I was asked to design a glass object. I remember that at the time we were designing spheres with a Scottish pattern, with interwoven clear and dark stripes. It was my first experience of the kind.”
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until 30 August 2017
Ettore Sottsass: the glass
Curator: Luca Massimo Barbero
Le Stanze del Vetro
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice