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Mobile Giallo
Ettore Sottsass Italian, born Austria
Not on view
Cross-shaped and studded with golden dots, Yellow Furniture reads as an homage to Otto Wagner’s Steinhof Church, which is also cruciform in plan and features golden dots as the leitmotif. Both Yellow Furniture and the Steinhof Church transfer religious concepts into material form, specifically the spiritual association in Christian iconography of gold as a material and symbol of the heavens. Consistent with Christian ideals, Sottsass intended this piece for production by Indian craftsmen as a way of addressing the poverty he witnessed during his travels.
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