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Ettore Sottsass

A rare double bed "Elledue," designed by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova, 1970s

Height: 71 cm Width: 220cm Depth: 261 cm

Large and rare double bed by Ettore Sottsass from the 1970 MOBILI GRIGI series. Grey coloured resin frame reinforced with fibreglass. The set is completed by its bedstead. 

Poltronova Edition. External bed dimensions: Depth 261 cm, width 220 cm, height headboard high 71 cm, headboard low 40 cm.

Mattress width 163 cm, depth 201 cm, mattress height 46 cm. Bed base dimensions 169 cm x 196 cm

Exhibitions:
Exhibitions: Sottsass. Projects 1946-2005, Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto. February-May 2005 Ettore Sottsass: A Master Returns, Barry Friedman Gallery, New York. October-December 2004
Bibliography:
Domus, 488, July 1970 (3rd Eurodomus Exhibition, Palazzo d'Arte, Milano) - Casa Vogue, November 1970 - B. Radice, Ettore Sottsass. A Critical Biography, London 1993, pp. 129 (drawings), pp. 130/31 - M.-L. Jousset, Ettore Sottsass, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1994, S. 78 - Ettore Sottsass, Vorrei sapere perche' Electa 2007, p. 75, pp.74/80 (about Poltronova) - E. Ambasz, Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, New York 1972, pp. 380-387 (on the "Mobili Grigi" series).
€ 40.000,00 / 50.000,00
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