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Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis design collective
NEW YORK – Memphis was a bright confetti bomb that blew up in the face of late-postwar design, but there were no serious casualties. During (and long after) Memphis’ active lifespan of 1981-88, Artemide lighting kept selling out of its sober black Tizio task lamps. Self-conscious L.A. modernist dealers continued to scour the land for […]
Home lighting trends: designers get creative, clever, cozy
NEW YORK – Designers and lighting companies have been busy coming up with new ways to hold a lightbulb and project light, and winter is a great time to explore their latest solutions. Some are inspired by the skies overhead. Others by style eras, from Deco to disco. Still others are working with interesting materials around which […]
Italian museum reconstructs home interior designed by Ettore Sottsass
MILAN – In early December 2021, Triennale Milano, an art and design museum in northern Italy, opened the Sala Sottsass on the first floor of the Palazzo dell’Arte. The Sala Sottsass contains the reconstruction and permanent display of an interior of the Casa Lana, a private residence designed by Ettore Sottsass in the mid-1960s in Milan. […]
Auctioneer Rico Baca: he’s strictly a ‘modern’ man
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Rico Baca says his former job as a hairstylist in Palm Beach helped prepare him to run auctions. Already an art and design aficionado, Baca’s job afforded him access to many area homes and gave him an understanding of what made his future client base tick by seeing what they […]