![“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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T 01
Table/magazine rack designed by Superstudio
Created to go together with the Sofo sofa, with the same length as the seat and half the width, this coffee table is made by bending a methacrylate sheet with a thickness of 12 millimeters. In white or red.
To request a quote, please write to the following email address: info@poltronova.it
year
1968
typology
table / magazine rack
dimension
82x41x30 [h] cm
materials
plexiglass
colours
white, or red
1972 Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2016 International Salone del Mobile, Milan 2016 Superstudio 50, MAXXI, Rome 2017 Superstudio – Mobili 1966-2016, Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft Köln / 2017 paristurin.ch, Zürich / 2017 Superstudio 50, Power Station of art, Shanghai
