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Commode column
Ettore Sottsass Italian, born Austria
Not on view
Commode Column evolved from the Tower Furniture developed for Mario Tchou. Here, Sottsass creates an interrelationship between object and user that dominates his later work. The column forces the user to move around it in order to experience and fully utilize it. This piece is a prototype that Sottsass designed for his own apartment, perhaps with some reference to the storage units by Charles and Ray Eames that he admired, which were also constructed with off-the-shelf industrial parts. The grid patterning and geometric forms tie it to Viennese modernism.
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