Frieze Masters 2023

Friedman Benda | Booth G09

Rocchetti (FF no. 104), 1957
Terracotta
7.75 x 4.25 x 4.25 inches
19.5 x 11 x 11 cm

Rocchetti (FF no. 107), 1957
Terracotta
9.5 x 4.25 x 4.25 inches
24 x 11 x 11 cm

Rocchetti (FF no. 265), 1956
Terracotta
12 x 5.25 x 5.25 inches
30 x 13.5 x 13.5 cm

Provenance
Estate of Ettore Sottsass, Jr. (all three Rocchetti works)

Exhibition History
Ettore Sottsass: Keramik (Ceramic). Hetjens-Museum, Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany. November 6, 2011 – February 26, 2012. (FF no. 104, 265)

Literature
“Nuove ceramiche di serie, / Ettore Sottsass, jr.,” Domus no. 345, August 1958, p. 48. (FF no. 104)

Ettore Sottsass, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1994, p. 62. (FF no. 265)

45, 63: Un museo del disegno industriale in Italia, Milan: Abitare Segesta, 1995, p. 162. (FF no. 265)

Bruno Bischofberger (ed.), Ettore Sottsass: Ceramics, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996, pp. 26-27. (FF no. 104, 107)

Fulvio Ferrari, Ettore Sottsass: Tutta La Ceramica, Italy: Umberto Allemandi, 1996, pp. 46, 77. (FF no. 104, 107, 265)

Ronald T. Labaco and Dennis P. Doordan, Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer, exh. cat. London: Merrell and LACMA, 2006, p. 109. (FF no. 104, 107)

Sally Schöne, Ettore Sottsass: auch der Turm von Babel war aus gabrannter Erde (and the Tower of Babel was also made of Terracotta), exh. cat., Cologne, Germany: Wienand, 2011, pp. 82, 84. (FF no. 104, 265)

Phillipe Thomé, Ettore Sottsass, New York: Phaidon, 2014, p. 142. (FF no. 265)

Fulvio Ferrari, Sottsass: 1000 Ceramics, Turin, Italy: AdArte s.r.l., 2017, pp. 35, 63. (FF no. 104, 107, 265)

Museum Collection
Centre Pompidou, Paris (FF no. 97, 99 from “Rocchetti” series)