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

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

- Ettore Sottsass

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

- Ettore Sottsass

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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.

- Ettore Sottsass