Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass was born in Innsbruck in 1917, graduated in architecture in Turin in 1939 and opened his Milan studio in 1947. From 1958 he worked as a consultant to Olivetti, where his Elea 9003 computer won a Compasso d’Oro, and in the 1980s he led the Memphis group and founded Sottsass Associati. He died in Milan in 2007.

For Poltronova, where he was art director, he designed the Califfo sofa of 1962, the Crazy Horse table of 1968 and the Ultrafragola mirror, the only piece of his 1970 Mobili Grigi series to reach production.