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Ziggurat "Black Stripes"
Not on view
The research laboratory Oeuffice was established by Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte and Jakub Zak to develop innovative objects in limited editions. The designers met in Milan after studying in their native Canada and attending university in Berlin. Like Sottsass, they share a vision of a contemporary utopia in which they refashion architectural design on a domestic scale. The ziggurat, an iconic architectural form that Sottsass revered, provided inspiration for this stack of storage boxes. The ziggurat’s form and masterful wood inlays originate in the Near East and were executed by Lebanese artists specialized in the technique.
