Ettore Sottsass Quotes

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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.
• A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
• 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…
• When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.
• I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.
• My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
• 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…
• ...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put…
• Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
• If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

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