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ID: 500019835
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019835
 
Record Type: Person
Sottsass, Ettore Jr. (Italian architect and designer, 1917-2007)

Note: Sottsass was educated in Turin, 1928-1934, and studied architecture at the Polytechnic there from 1935-1939. He was associated with the designer Luigi Spazzapan from 1937-1940. Since 1946, Sottsass has been in private practice as architect, and since 1958 as an industrial designer, in Milan. He has been the Designer Consultant to the Olivetti Company since 1958, and he established an additional office for Olivetti at Ivrea, near Turin, in 1960. He was also a founder-member of the Global Tools group of Milan in 1975. From 1979, Sottsass worked with Studio Alchymia designers. group in Milan. In 1981, he was the founder of the Memphis design group, Milan. He has designed chairs and a table for the Shaughnessy House (Montréal, Québec) and was the Principal of Sottsass Associati in Milan, from 1980 until his death in 2007. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presented a survey of his work in 2006, and in late 2007 a Sottsass retrospective was mounted in Trieste, Italy. Italian architect and designer.
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Names:
Sottsass, Ettore (preferred,V,index,LCO,Dutch-P,NA)
Ettore Sottsass (V,display)
Sottsass, Ettore, II (V)
Sottsass, Ettore, Jr. (V)
Sotsas, Etoreh (V)
Sottsass, Ettore, jr (U)
Soṭsas, Eṭoreh (U)
םוטסאס, אטורה (U)
סוטסאס, אטורה (U)
Sottsass, Ettore Jr. (U,English-P,NA,U)
סוטסאס, אטורה, הבן (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Sottsas, Ettore (jr.) (U)

Nationalities:
Italian (preferred)
Austrian

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
architect
designer
furniture designer
industrial designer
photographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria) (inhabited place)
Died:  Milan (Milano province, Lombardy, Italy) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
associate of ....  Spazzapan, Luigi  
......................  (Italian painter and illustrator, 1889-1958) [500112896]
child of ....  Sottsass, Ettore, Sr.  
..............  (Italian architect, 1892-1953) [500125082]
employee was ....  Brugola, Gino  
......................  (Italian furniture worker and cabinetmaker, active late 20th century) [500045664]
member of ....  Memphis  
................  (International group of designers, founded 1980) [500125093]
related to ....  Sottsass Associati  
..................  (Italian architectural and engineering firm, contemporary) [500274936]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Sottsass, Ettore Jr. (I)

Biographies:
(Italian architect and designer, 1917-2007) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Italian architect and designer, 1917-) ..... [AVERY]
(Italian architect and designer, born Innsbruck (Austria), 1917) ..... [CCA]
(Italian architect, painter, designer, b.1917) ..... [BHA]
(Italian architect, 1917-2007) ..... [AVERY]
(Austrian architect, 1917-2007) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1917-2007) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Italian artist, born Austria. 1917-2007) ..... [MoMA]
(Austrian painter, 1917-2007) ..... [IMJ]
(Italian architect, 1917-2007) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
םוטסאס, אטורה ........ [GRL]
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83301844
סוטסאס, אטורה ........ [GRL]
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83301844
סוטסאס, אטורה, הבן ........ [IMJ]
..................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Ettore Sottsass ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Sotsas, Etoreh ........ [CCA]
..............................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Soṭsas, Eṭoreh ........ [GRL]
..............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83301844
Sottsas, Ettore (jr.) ........ [RKD]
..........................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 224861
Sottsass, Ettore ........ [AVERY Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
..................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
..................................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
..................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83301844
..................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 83301844; accessed 9 March 2006
..................................  Pogrebin, Ettore Sottsass, New York Times (2008)
..................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 224861
Sottsass, Ettore, II ........ [VP]
..........................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Sottsass, Ettore, Jr. ........ [CCA, VP]
...........................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
...........................................  Celant, Italian Metamorphosis (1994) 617
...........................................  LACMA [online] (2004) accessed 9 March 2006
Sottsass, Ettore, jr ........ [Grove Art Preferred]
........................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
Sottsass, Ettore Jr. ........ [IMJ Preferred]
.........................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Bangert, Der Stil der 50er Jahre (1983)
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Byars, Design Encyclopedia (1994)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
....................  Celant, Italian Metamorphosis (1994) 617
....................  Contemporary Architects (1987)
....................  De Seta, L'architettura del Novecento (1981)
....................  Emanuel, Contemporary Architects (1994)
....................  Ettore Sottsass, CCA object file
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n83301844
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  LACMA [online] (2004) accessed 9 March 2006
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] 88
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n83301844
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 83301844; accessed 9 March 2006
....................  Pogrebin, Ettore Sottsass, New York Times (2008)
....................  Portoghesi, Dizionario di architettura e urbanistica (1968-1969)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 224861
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q78885
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CCA, VP]
.......... Contemporary Architects (1987)
.......... Ettore Sottsass, CCA object file
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] 88
.......... Pogrebin, Ettore Sottsass, New York Times (2008) obit.
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