The IVORY table, designed by Ettore Sottsass, Italy 1984.
Side table in reconstituted veneer and plastic laminate, with a glass top and circular base.
Literature: The International Design Year Book 1986/87 by Emilio Ambasz, page 81, illustrated.
Ettore Sottsass (14 September 1917 – 31 December 2007). Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. His body of designs included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design. Sottsass Associati, primarily an architectural practice, also designed elaborate stores and showrooms for Esprit, identities for Alessi, exhibitions, interiors, consumer electronics in Japan and furniture of all kinds. The studio was based on the cultural guidance of Ettore Sottsass and the work conducted by its many young associates, who often left to open their own studios.
