Frieze Masters 2023

Friedman Benda | Booth G09

Hanging Light, 1956
Lacquered metal, brass and perspex
15.5 x 17.25 x 15 inches
39.4 x 43.8 x 38.1 cm

Provenance
Private collection, Italy
The Gallery Mourmans, the Netherlands

Exhibition History
Ettore Sottsass: There is a Planet. Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy. September 15, 2017 – March 11, 2018.

Literature
“Lampade e ceramiche / Ettore Sottsass, arch.,” Domus no. 332, July 1957, p. 47.

“rassegna domus / lampade”, Domus no. 335, October 1957, n.p.

“Un arredamento a Genova / Ettore Sottsass. arch.,” Domus no. 356, July 1959, pp. 17-18, 20-21, 23.

Pier Carlo Santini, “Introduzione ad Ettore Sottsass Jr.”, Zodiac 11, International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture, Italy: Ing. C. Olivetti & Co. Ivrea, 1963, pp. 110, 119 (for an example).

Barbara Radice (ed.), Ettore Sottsass: There Is A Planet, exh. cat., Milan: Triennale Design Museum, 2017, p. 24 (for a sketch dated 1956).

Francesca Zanella, Ettore Sottsass: Catalogo ragionato dell’archivio 1922-1978 CSAC/Università di Parma, exh. cat., Milan: Silvana, 2017, p. 190 (for a drawing), fig. 135.2.

Anty Pansera, etc., Arredoluce: Catalogo Ragionato 1943-1987: catalogue raisonne, Milan: Silvana editoriale, 2018, p. 303, cat. no. 140.