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Ultrafragola

by Ettore Sottsass jr.

Lo specchio/lampada Ultrafragola con la sua sagoma sinuosa, evocativa di una chioma femminile ondulata, appartiene alla serie dei Mobili Grigi, una camera da letto e un soggiorno completi, disegnati da Ettore Sottsass per Poltronova e presentati alla terza edizione di Eurodomus nel 1970. Tutti tranne Ultrafragola sono rimasti allo stadio di prototipi.

 

«Quanto poi alle luci che escono fuori dai “Mobili Grigi”, le tombe non hanno sempre delle tremule luci che illuminano la tristezza degli spazi vaganti nella valle polverosa? E i sottomarini non hanno delle luci verdi tremolanti nella loro pancia? Le luci sono pensate venir fuori dal corpo di fiberglass, come il bianco splendente della pelle bianca dei seni, o il rosso splendente della punta del pene nelle notti pornografiche, qualcosa del genere, voglio dire qualcosa come le lucciole giapponesi che trasformano le notti di maggio in materia solida. Ci può essere qualcosa di più ridicolo?»

 

[Ettore Sottsass jr., 1970]

 

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  • anno1970
  • tipologiaspecchio/lampada
  • dimensioni100[l] x 13[p] x 195[a] cm
  • peso34 kg
  • materialiPETG opalino termoformato, specchio, luci a LED
  • colori[acrilico] bianco opalino
    [luce] rosa
  • n.b.Lo specchio Ultrafragola è stato progettato da Ettore Sottsass jr. con un unico specifico colore: rosa chiaro. La forma dell’oggetto, le dimensioni e la complessità dell’impianto illuminante all’interno, la luminosità e il colore rosa chiaro possono essere percepiti con leggere variazioni di tono a seconda della luce, del tipo di foto, della parete di fondo sui cui è appoggiato e l’ambiente circostante in cui è inserito. Eventuali sfumature o colori diversi non sono conformi al progetto originale, quindi non autentici. Per qualunque dubbio o chiarimento si prega di rivolgersi all’azienda attraverso gli appositi contatti.
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Mostre

  • 1970Eurodomus 3, Palazzo dell’Arte, Milan
  • 1971Domus Italian Design, Harrods, London
  • 1991Mobili Italiani 1961-1991. Le varie età dei linguaggi, Triennale, Milan
  • 1999Ettore Sottsass, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan
  • 20031945–2000 Il Design In Italia: 100 Oggetti della Collezione Permanente del Design Italiano, Triennale di Milano, Milan / La Fabbrica Bella, Centro Cultural Justiça Federal, Rio de Janeiro / La Fabbrica Bella, Altman Building, New York
  • 2004I Maestri: Design Italiano, Triennale di Milano travelling exhibition / Radical Design, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
  • 2005Sottsass Progetti 1946—2005, MART, Museo di Arte Moderna di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
  • 2006Italy Made In Art: Now, Contemporary Arts and Industrial Design, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Shanghai / Ettore Sottsass Architect And Designer, LACMA, Los Angeles
  • 2007Plexiglass: Werkstoff in Architektur und Design = material in architecture and design, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany / Ettore Sottsass: Vorrei Sapere Perché, Salone degli Incanti, Ex Pescheria, Trieste
  • 2008Abitare il tempo, Verona Fiere, Verona, Italy
  • 2010Biennale Internazionale del Design, Palazzo dei Capitani, Ascoli Piceno, Italy
  • 2011Creative Junctions, National Museum of China, Beijing / Meet Design: An Italian Story, Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Rome / Meet Design: An Italian Story, Palazzo Bertalazone, Turin / Le Fabbriche Dei Sogni, Triennale di Milano, Milan
  • 2012Pop Art Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany / Pop Art Design, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
  • 2013Pop Art Design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Pop Art Design, Barbican Art Gallery, London
  • 2015Creativa Produzione: La Toscana e il design Italiano 1950–1990, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy / Firenze 4 ever, 11th edition, LuisaViaRoma, Florence / Pop Art Design, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
  • 2017Radical Utopias: Beyond architecture: Florence 1966—1976, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
  • 2018Joeuts à Jouer: Oggetti nella foresta, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Brussels, Belgium / Italiana: L’Italia vista dalla moda 1971–2001, Palazzo Reale, Milan / Radical Utopias: Beyond architecture: Florence 1966–1976, CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  • 2019Museo del Design Italiano, Triennale, Milan / I–Made: Italian Manufacture Art & Design exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London / Porto Design Biennale, Palácio das Artes Fundação da Juventude, Porto
  • 2020Poltronova. La casa non domestica, Contemporary Cluster, Rome

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🦄 ULTRAFAVOLA: Poltronova beyond the mirror
Milano Design Week 2023
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On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2023, Centro Studi Poltronova renews its synergy with Mosca Partners for Design Variations, this time crossing the threshold of the Palazzo del Circolo Filologico Milanese in the heart of the Brera Design District. From 17 to 23 April, the Tuscan company will take centre stage. In the large and evocative Liberty Hall, under the luminous eye of a suggestive skylight, in a maze of rooms suspended in space and time, iconic objects and unusual new proposals will be displayed as if they had jumped out of one of the over ten thousand volumes of the library of the city's oldest cultural association that has its headquarters here. With ULTRAFAVOLA, inspired by its own “best seller”, the Ultrafragola mirror designed by Ettore Sottsass, the Centro Studi Poltronova, just like in Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There, invites you to go beyond reflective surfaces to discover the magical dimension of part of its fantastic product catalogue. 
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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👯 Rug by @poltronova | @cc-tapis
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📷 Photo by @serenaeller
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📆 2023 April 17–23 
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📍@design_variations, @circolofilologicomilanese, via Clerici 10, Milan
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🍓 Ultrafragola
Mirror/lamp designed by Ettore Sottsass jr.
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Ultrafragola mirror/lamp, with its sinuous profile that suggests long wavy hair, belongs to the Mobili Grigi series of complete bedroom and living room furnishings designed by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova and presented at the third edition of Eurodomus in 1970. With the exception of Ultrafragola, the models never got beyond the prototype phase.
«As for the lights that are coming out of “The grey furniture”, don’t tombs always have a trembling light to illuminate the blue of the spirits wandering in the valley of dust? Don’t submarines have a trembling green light in their belly? The lights anyway are supposed to come out from the fibreglass bodies, like the ever—glowing of the breast’s white skin, like the ever—glowing of the penis red head in pornographic nights, something of this kind: I mean something like the Japanese lights of the glow worm that are turning the nights into matter.» [Ettore Sottsass jr., 1970]
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @pietrosavorelli_associati
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#poltronova #ettoresottsass #sottsass #ultrafragola #ultrafragolamirror #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly
🍓 Ultrafragola
Mirror/lamp designed by Ettore Sottsass jr.
.
Ultrafragola mirror/lamp, with its sinuous profile that suggests long wavy hair, belongs to the Mobili Grigi series of complete bedroom and living room furnishings designed by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova and presented at the third edition of Eurodomus in 1970. With the exception of Ultrafragola, the models never got beyond the prototype phase.
«As for the lights that are coming out of “The grey furniture”, don’t tombs always have a trembling light to illuminate the blue of the spirits wandering in the valley of dust? Don’t submarines have a trembling green light in their belly? The lights anyway are supposed to come out from the fibreglass bodies, like the ever—glowing of the breast’s white skin, like the ever—glowing of the penis red head in pornographic nights, something of this kind: I mean something like the Japanese lights of the glow worm that are turning the nights into matter.» [Ettore Sottsass jr., 1970]
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @pietrosavorelli_associati
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#poltronova #ettoresottsass #sottsass #ultrafragola #ultrafragolamirror #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly
🍓 Ultrafragola
Mirror/lamp designed by Ettore Sottsass jr.
.
Ultrafragola mirror/lamp, with its sinuous profile that suggests long wavy hair, belongs to the Mobili Grigi series of complete bedroom and living room furnishings designed by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova and presented at the third edition of Eurodomus in 1970. With the exception of Ultrafragola, the models never got beyond the prototype phase.
«As for the lights that are coming out of “The grey furniture”, don’t tombs always have a trembling light to illuminate the blue of the spirits wandering in the valley of dust? Don’t submarines have a trembling green light in their belly? The lights anyway are supposed to come out from the fibreglass bodies, like the ever—glowing of the breast’s white skin, like the ever—glowing of the penis red head in pornographic nights, something of this kind: I mean something like the Japanese lights of the glow worm that are turning the nights into matter.» [Ettore Sottsass jr., 1970]
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @pietrosavorelli_associati
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#poltronova #ettoresottsass #sottsass #ultrafragola #ultrafragolamirror #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly
“Design for fun”
MAP – Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai
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#poltronova #ultrafragola #ettoresottsass #sottsass #designforfun #colorful #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #pop #madeinitaly #map #museumofartpudong #shanghai #cibicworkshop #aldocibic #josephdejardin
“Design for fun”
MAP – Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai
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#poltronova #ultrafragola #ettoresottsass #sottsass #designforfun #colorful #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #pop #madeinitaly #map #museumofartpudong #shanghai #icbicworkshop #aldocibic #josephdejardin
🍓 Ultrafragola
Mirror/lamp designed by Ettore Sottsass jr.
.
Ultrafragola mirror/lamp, with its sinuous profile that suggests long wavy hair, belongs to the Mobili Grigi series of complete bedroom and living room furnishings designed by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova and presented at the third edition of Eurodomus in 1970. With the exception of Ultrafragola, the models never got beyond the prototype phase.
«As for the lights that are coming out of “The grey furniture”, don’t tombs always have a trembling light to illuminate the blue of the spirits wandering in the valley of dust? Don’t submarines have a trembling green light in their belly? The lights anyway are supposed to come out from the fibreglass bodies, like the ever—glowing of the breast’s white skin, like the ever—glowing of the penis red head in pornographic nights, something of this kind: I mean something like the Japanese lights of the glow worm that are turning the nights into matter.» [Ettore Sottsass jr., 1970]
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @pietrosavorelli_associati
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📍 @contemporary_cluster, Cavallerini Lazzaroni Palace, Rome
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#poltronova #ettoresottsass #sottsass #ultrafragola #ultrafragolamirror #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly

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