Tartar | Bookcase by Ettore Sottsass for MEMPHIS Srl
MEMPHIS SrlTartar Bookcase by Ettore Sottsass for MEMPHIS Srl
Ettore Sottsass, 1985
Lacquered wooden bookcase, covered with decorative laminate and natural wood essence.
Dimensions:
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W: 76.77 in
D: 33.46 in
H: 30.71 in
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
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