Ettore Sottsass Quotes

• When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

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  Design, Sensual, Enough

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• La decoración puede ser un estado de ánimo, una percepción inusual, un susurro ritual.

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  Design, Perception, Mind

  Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people, can influence not only physical conditions but also emotions. They can touch the nerves, the blood, the muscles, the eyes and the moods of people.

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  Eye, Thinking, Blood

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

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  Two, Differences, Design

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

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  Fleeting, Calm, Patient

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• It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never totally metaphysical; it is never a 'destiny' but always a fact with some kind of historical reference. To put an object on a base means to monumentalize it, to make everyone aware it exists.

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  Mean, Destiny, Design

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

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  Exercise, Design, Furniture

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

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  Mother, Important, Chairs

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• I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

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  Stupid, Mean, Design

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• Si crees que vas a encontrarte con tu destino al otro lado de una puerta, puede que no te interese su diseño.

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  Destiny, Thinking, Doors

  Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• ...no cabe duda de que tarde o temprano se hará algo para que podamos ponernos una casa todos los días, igual que nos ponemos la ropa o elegimos un libro para leer o un teatro al que ir, como elegimos un día para vivir, dentro de los límites rallados por otros destinos u oportunidades.

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  Book, Destiny, Clothes

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