Important Design

Ettore Sottsass

Nirvana cabinet

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November 14, 05:24 PM GMT

Estimate

17,000 - 22,000 EUR

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Description

Ettore Sottsass

Nirvana cabinet

Designed in 1966, our example made circa 1990

Painted wood, plastic laminate-covered wood and lacquered metal

190 x 104 x 104 cm ; 74 ¾ x 41 x 41 in.

Sotheby's London, 2 March 1999, lot 189

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Private collection, London

Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass, A critical biography, London, 1993, p. 121 et 122

Ivan Mietton, Sottsass : Poltronova 1958 - 1974, Paris, 2021, p. 173

The Nirvana cabinet was created in 1966 but remained in the planning stage, before finally being produced under the artist's control around 1990.

A same model of this cabinet is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art collection (inv. 2009.324A-E), Indianapolis.

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