Tartar | Bookcase by Ettore Sottsass for MEMPHIS Srl
MEMPHIS Srl- Width
- 76¾195
- Depth
- 33½85
- Height
- 30¾78
The Tartar sideboard by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis (1985) is remarkable in several ways. Sottsass once concurred that this iconoclastic piece was an avid attempt to create a Sottsassian-Cubist work, elements that were 3-D visible from many angles (as Picasso once pioneered with painting & sculpture).
Yet it also implements a very curious and beautiful form of laminate created by him, a reconstituted veneer that "elongated" and blew-up the veining of the natural wood. It was a process that required stacking hundreds of bookmatched sheets of wooden veneer that were glued, compressed and then sawn on the diagonal.
Sottsass therein found another way to "decorate" with a natural material.
-KJ
Ettore Sottsass, 1985. Console in lacquered wood covered with decorative laminate and wood veneer. Made by Memphis Milano.
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