Triennale Milano
Casa Lana by Ettore Sottsass
Casa Lana set up in Triennale Milano © Triennale Milano
It is possible to visit Casa Lana—a private Milanese residence designed in the 1960s by Ettore Sottsass—in the Sala Sottsass on the first floor of the Triennale Milano. A series of exhibitions and events are held in connection with the permanent exhibition of Casa Lana in order to shine the spotlight on various aspects of Sottsass’ work and philosophy in order to create a Sala Sottsass inside Triennale Milano.
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Foto by Delfino Sisto Legnani and Alessandro Saletta, DSL Studio
Installation

Casa Lana

Permanent
A faithful reconstruction of part of the private residence designed in Milan in the mid-60s by Ettore Sottsass for the lithographer and printer Giovanni Lana.
Casa Lana di Ettore Sottsass, photo by Delfino Sisto Legnani and Alessandro Saletta
Exhibition

Ettore Sottsass Design Metaphors

Until December 31 2026
Prosegue a Casa Lana una serie di mostre dedicate a Ettore Sottsass, tra le figure più influenti del design del Novecento.
Ettore Sottsass and Barbara Radice, Milan, 1977
Exhibition

Ettore Sottsass Mise en scène

December 12 2025 – February 15 2026
The exhibition focuses on Ettore Sottsass’s private life, bringing together approximately 1,200 black-and-white and colour photographs, taken between 1976 and 2007.
Design for Wolf house, 1987
Exhibition

ETTORE SOTTSASS ARCHITECTURES LANDSCAPES RUINS

October 4 2024 – April 13 2025
The new chapter in the series of exhibitions dedicated to the figure of Ettore Sottsass explores the dimension of architecture through drawing.
Ettore Sottsass, ink on paper, 1974
Exhibition

Ettore Sottsass Design Metaphors

September 29 2023 – September 15 2024
The exhibition brings together a series of photographs taken by Sottsass between 1972 and 1978 on the subject of architecture, design and living.
La Parola, installation view, foto Gianluca Di Ioia, © Triennale MIlano
Exhibition

Ettore Sottsass. La Parola (The Word)

January 20 – September 17 2023
A selection of drawings, objects, writings and unpublished works that together create a visual and literary anthology that reflect the essence of Sottsass’s original narrative vein.