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Cabinet No. 56
Ettore Sottsass Italian, born Austria
Not on view
Sottsass’s late furniture for Gallery Mourmans liberated the artist from the ordinary constraints of the market and quantity. The collaboration gave him license to pursue the vast poetic and sculptural potential of perhaps his favorite and most accomplished of all design archetypes, the cabinet. They read as prototypes, concepts, and sculpture. Each cabinet in this series is a study in materials, structure, form, color, and visual and sculptural effects—homages to his friends and design masters.
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