Frieze Masters 2023

Friedman Benda | Booth G09

Tempus per l’ingresso wall cabinet, c. 1965
Laminated wood, aluminium, glass
97 x 68 x 27.5 inches
246.4 x 172.7 x 69.9 cm

Provenance
Sergio Camilli, Italy

Literature
“Ettore Sottsass Jr.: Mobile 1965 / per Poltronova”, Domus no. 433 December 1965, pg. 36-39 (other works from the series).

Catalogo Produzione Poltronova, 1966-1967, p. 32. (similar beige version from the same series)

Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio del Design Italiano 1950-1980 Immagini e contributi per una storia dell’arredo italiano, Milan: Mondadori editore, 1985, p. 225. (similar version from the same series)

Vittorio Gregotti, Ettore Sottsass: Mobili e Qualche Arredamento, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadiru Editore, 1985, p. 46 (other works from the series), 50 (for a drawing).

Ronald T. Labaco and Dennis P. Doordan, Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer, exh. cat., Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006, p. 135 (similar version from the same series).

Philippe Thomé, Ettore Sottsass, New York: Phaidon Press, 2014, p. 191 (similar version from the same series, in Centro Fly exhibition, Milan 1965).

Barbara Radice (ed.), Ettore Sottsass: There is a Planet, exh. cat., Milan: Triennale Design Museum, 2017, p. 30 (for a similar work).

Mateo Kries and Jochen Eisenbrand, Atlas of Furniture Design, Weil am Rhein, Germany: Vitra Design Museum, 2019, p. 646, no. 1146. (similar version from the same series)

Ivan Mietton, Sottsass: Poltronova 1958-1974, Paris: Edition Skira, 2021, pp. 148-149, 238-239 (similar version from the same series).