Malide Vase
Designer Ettore Sottsass Italian, born Austria
Manufacturer Toso Vetri d’Arte, Murano
Retailer Memphis Milano Italian
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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however, he began to look beyond function to create objects imbued with symbolism, emotional appeal, and global and historical references. Malide reflects an interest in historical glass forms from Murano, as well as a focus on complex geometric forms that could intersect in various colors and exploit qualities of transparency, a hallmark in Sottsass's work for Memphis, the collective he established in the 1980s.
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