Ettore Sottssas is an architect and designer, who uses bold
colours and shapes to create many different things. His worked with designers in the 1980’s to
create the Memphis group, which was a collection of designers who produced a range on post modernism
objects, such as furniture, lighting, ceramics and textiles, with were full of
bright colours, bold shapes and objects at unusual and slanted angles.
Whilst the Memphis group was going on, Sottssas also
developed the Sottssas Associati, which is a group centred on architecture. It gave
the designers the chance to design on a substantial scale.
Sottssas’ designs, with bright and bold colours and shapes,
have inspired generations of designers. Personally, I like the work because of
how unusual it is; the bright and contrasting colours all pushed together for
one, but also the unusual shapes, which have been combined, as well as the idea
to put things at strange angles, making them less useful. This was a key part
to Sottssas’ work, as he didn’t want to design consumer products.
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