Important Design
Important Design
Ettore Sottsass
Nirvana cabinet
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Estimate
17,000 - 22,000 EUR
Lot Sold
20,400 EUR
Lot Details
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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