«The idea of decorating the surface of the Superonda to mark its fiftieth anniversary was suggested by Roberta Meloni. When imagining a hypothetical decoration, I thought I’d dedicate it to the person I have always admired but from whom, because of my timid and argumentative character, I had kept my distance, unlike my more spontaneous and extrovert school companions: Ettore Sottsass jr.
And so, while thinking about him, I searched for a decoration that I hope represents him in his obstinate search for complex simplicity, for the minuscule that is in fact gigantic. It is everything.»
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![“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carrol, illustration by John Teniel.
Ultrafragola mirror by Ettore Sottsass jr, 1970.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall... When not shamefaced and relegated to bare functionalism, the mirror is the most evocative of all household furnishings. For Umberto Eco it is a “threshold—phenomenon” and for Lewis Carrol a bridge—object that leads to the wonderland beyond it, where the ever popular Alice lived out her adventures. Ultrafragola, designed by Ettore Sottsass jr and in continuous production at Poltronova since 1970, seems suspended between two different concepts of “window”, the first symbolised metaphorically by maximum visibility and the second its opposite. On one hand it references not only the concepts expressed by Eco and Carroll, but also Russian icons, which according to tradition create a gateway that connects the real world with another reality. (Elisabetta Trincherini) [Contents by The monographs of Poltronova: Ultrafragola. Ettore Sottsass jr, edited by Francesca Balena Arista, Donatello D’Angelo and Elisabetta Trincherini, Centro Studi Poltronova per il Design, Florence 2020]
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