Ettore Sottsass Mise en scène

Together with Studio Sottsass, we are presenting a new chapter in the research dedicated to the great architect and designer. 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, that is, from the year he met Barbara Radice to the year he died. The photos provide a wide-ranging view of their private and public life, at home and around the world, for work and for pleasure, with few distinctions. In fact, little distinction was made between the public and the private in the couple’s life together. The title of the exhibition refers to Sottsass’s idea that life, rather like in Commedia dell’Arte, resembles a largely improvised “staging” of a sketchily outlined plot.