Cabinet No. 56

2003

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Sottsass’s late furniture for Gallery Mourmans liberated the artist from the ordinary constraints of the market and quantity. The collaboration gave him license to pursue the vast poetic and sculptural potential of perhaps his favorite and most accomplished of all design archetypes, the cabinet. They read as prototypes, concepts, and sculpture. Each cabinet in this series is a study in materials, structure, form, color, and visual and sculptural effects—homages to his friends and design masters.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Cabinet No. 56
Artist: Ettore Sottsass (Italian (born Austria), Innsbruck 1917–2007 Milan)
Date: 2003
Medium: Wood, ebonized pearwood veneer, acrylic
Dimensions: 80 1/8 × 82 7/8 × 23 5/8 in. (203.5 × 210.5 × 60 cm)
Classification: Furniture
Credit Line: Courtesy of Gallery Mourmans
Rights and Reproduction: Studio Ettore Sottsass Srl
Photography by Erik & Petra Hesmerg for the Mourmans Gallery
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art