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Carlton Room Divider

'Carlton' Room Divider and Bookcase by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano, Italy
By Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass
Located in London, GB
Probably the most iconic of all Ettore Sottsass' designs, the colourful Carlton is half room
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Bookcases

Materials

Laminate, Wood

Carlton Memphis Milano Bookcase or Room Divider by Ettore Sottsass, 1981
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Chicago, IL
" room divider or bookcase, designed by Sottstass in 1981, Italy. The iconic Carlton piece was part of
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Bookcases

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Carlton Wood Room Divider, by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano Collection
By Memphis Group, Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Here you are shown an authentic and perfect reproduction of the Carlton bookcase and room divider
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Screens and Room Dividers

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Ettore Sottsass East Side Arm Chair
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Ettore Sottsass East Side Arm Chair
Ettore Sottsass East Side Arm Chair
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Hollywood Regency Wall Unit or Room Divider, Denmark, 1950s
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Carlton Room Divider Designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1981 for Memphis Milano
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Carlton Room Divider Designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1981 for Memphis Milano The totemic Carlton
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Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass
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Carlton Designed by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass
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The Carlton bookcase and room divider, designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1981, Italy. Wood and
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Carlton Designed by Ettore Sottsass
Carlton Designed by Ettore Sottsass
H 76.78 in W 74.81 in D 15.75 in
Carlton Bookcase Roomdivider by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis, 1981
By Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Group
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Ettore Sottsass for sale on 1stDibs

An architect, industrial designer, philosopher and provocateur, Ettore Sottsass led a revolution in the aesthetics and technology of modern design in the late 20th century.

Sottsass was the oldest member of the Memphis Group — a design collective, formed in Milan in 1980, whose irreverent, spirited members included Alessandro Mendini, Michele de Lucchi, Michael Graves and Shiro Kuramata. All had grown disillusioned by the staid, black-and-brown “corporatized” modernism that had become endemic in the 1970s. Memphis (the name stemmed from the title of a Bob Dylan song) countered with bold, brash, colorful, yet quirkily minimal designs for furniture, glassware, ceramics and metalwork. They mocked high-status by building furniture with inexpensive materials such as plastic laminates, decorated to resemble exotic finishes such as animal skins. Their work was both functional and — as intended — shocking. Even as it preceded the Memphis Group's formal launch, Sottsass's iconic Ultrafragola mirror — in its conspicuously curved plastic shell and radical pops of pink neon — embodies many of the collective's postmodern ideals.

Sottsass's most-recognized designs appeared in the first Memphis collection, issued in 1981 — notably the multihued, angular Carlton room divider and Casablanca bookcase. As pieces on 1stDibs demonstrate, however, Sottsass is at his most imaginative and expressive in smaller, secondary furnishings such as lamps and chandeliers, and in table pieces and glassware that have playful and sculptural qualities.

It was as an artist that Ettore Sottsass was celebrated in his life, in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in 2006, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art a year later. Even then Sottsass’s work prompted critical debate. And for a man whose greatest pleasure was in astonishing, delighting and ruffling feathers, perhaps there was no greater accolade. That the work remains so revolutionary and bold — that it breaks with convention so sharply it will never be considered mainstream — is a testament to his genius.