Preliminary Sketch, January-February, 1986: Elevation, Daniel Wolf Residence, Ridgway, Colorado
Designer Ettore Sottsass Italian, born Austria
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Ettore Sottsass was a seminal figure in 20th century design, evolving over the course of his career from modernism to postmodernism. In his early career, he took a functionalist and rationalist approach to design. By the 1960s, however, he began to look beyond function to create objects imbued with symbolism, emotional appeal, and global and historical references. The Wolf house, one of only three designed by Sottsass in the United States, reflects his interest in colorful Indian architecture, developed through many trips to India, as well as Bauhaus-inspired pure geometric forms and colors, with a focus on complex structural compositions, often seen in his work for Memphis, the collective he established in the 1980s.
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