Ettore Sottsass is a design and architecture icon. Best known as the founder of the Memphis movement in the early 1980s, his career has actually spanned 65 plus years (he’s now 88). In that time he has worked with many of the world’s best known design manufacturers such as Alessi, Olivetti and Sevres, and has created an eclectic body of work that defies a single signature style. A comprehensive museum exhibition presented at LACMA, his first in the US, has just ended. The showcase may have ended but the show lives on in the catalog. A pioneer in several fields of design, Ettore Sottsass: Architect And Designer presents works in furniture, ceramics, glass, jewelry, architecture and industrial design. Hardcover, 160 pages, 130 color illustrations, $25.17 at Amazon. For the collector, there's also a limited edition of recent Sottsass work for Manufacture de Sevres here.

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