![“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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SPERA
Mirror and photo holder designed by Superstudio
Spera is a small mirror and a photo holder by Superstudio began with the idea of using scraps from the processing of marble. An operation of bricolage, rather than creation, as the Florence-based group stated at the time. Careful milling of the irregular marble pieces makes them become the precious support for a mirror and for two sheets of methacrylate to use as photo frames. “Ofelia, Spera and Vanitas” series, ahead of their time, represent a project of transformation capable of granting a new, refined aesthetic to industrial scrap.
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year
1968
typology
small mirrors and photo holders
dimension
[S] 16 x 10 x 40[h] cm
materials and colours
[S] pink plexiglas, mirror and “nero marquina” [black] marble
2016 International Salone del Mobile, Milan / Superstudio 50, MAXXI, Rome 2017 Superstudio – Mobili 1966-2016, Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft Köln
