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planter
Ettore Sottsass Italian, born Austria
Not on view
As Poltronova’s artistic director, Sottsass struggled in the company’s early years to define new modern furnishings in response to contemporary life in the postwar era. His models included the Wiener Werkstätte and the Bauhaus. Both early twentieth-century movements simplified forms to platonic volumes, like the cube, and used construction methods and materials that would allow for mass production. For this planter, Sottsass assembled standard lengths of wood into a simple cubic form in a linear construction. Visual interest is found in the alternating rhythm of color and height.
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