...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. - Ettore Sottsass
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.
- Ettore Sottsass
My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood. - Ettore Sottsass
My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to r… - Ettore Sottsass
...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to r…
Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting. - Ettore Sottsass
Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady - Ettore Sottsass
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design. - Ettore Sottsass
If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.
It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never… - Ettore Sottsass
It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never…
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. - Ettore Sottsass
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people, can influence not only phys… - Ettore Sottsass
When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people, can influence not only phys…
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