planter
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.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.
Artwork Details
- Title: planter
- Artist: Ettore Sottsass (Italian (born Austria), Innsbruck 1917–2007 Milan)
- Date: 1961
- Medium: Wood, paint
- Dimensions: 22 × 14 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (55.9 × 36.2 × 36.2 cm)
- Classification: Furniture
- Credit Line: Private collection
- Rights and Reproduction: Studio Ettore Sottsass Srl
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art