Exhibition
Alpenglühen - 100 years of Ettore Sottsass Jr.
15 Nov 2017 – 10 Feb 2018
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 45 Davies Street
- London
- W1K 4LX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bond Street
On the occasion of Ettore Sottsass’ 100th birthday this exhibition delves into the beginnings of Sottsass’ earlier years in Innsbruck and Turin, and his attempts at becoming an artist after serving in the Alpine Regiment during the second world war.
About
Gilbert Bretterbauer
Coco Crampton
Siro Cugusi
Magdalena Drwiega
Marina Faust
Paul Kindersley
Jakob Lena Knebl
Camilla Løw
Georg Petermichl
Stefan Reiterer
Salvatore Viviano
& Ettore Sottsass
As a designer he was convinced that objects needed to have sensuality. The Italian designer created a new genre where his creations possessed a spirit that went beyond the functional.
Alpenglühen brings together contemporary art which plays with the notion of functionalism versus the romantic, idealistic and visionary.
“when I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should be sensual and exciting.”
“A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady”
— Ettore Sottsass Jr.
