SOTTSASS ETTORE SILVERSMITH - VASE IN MASSIVE SILVER 925- ALASKA - circa 1982 - ITALIEN 20 EME
Height : about 12.87 inches
Weight :  about 3.8 pounds
Refer to the book "Memphis" of Brigitte Fitoussi - Edition Assouline.
The duty of the artists has to be to annoy the roads of the whim, the surprise, the independence " Ettore Sottsass.
Useful object and\or work of art, halfway between both, such is the big contradiction of Memphis, but  its originality too.
Designer of the 1980s, very appreciated as soon as the creative Italian movement appears , Ettore Sottsass, leader of the movement named Memphis, knew how to be a real creator : architect of formation, then designer playing with the production of furniture, lamps, ceramic, he touched the silverware by daring to be avant-gardist too.
Subjected to various influences, the popular art, the ethnographical art, here it is the childish mind of the artist that stands out from this major piece.