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born in Innsbruck, Austria

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Young Ettore Sottsass reads a newspaper smoking a cigarette

Ettore Sottsass during World War II, c. 1944. © Courtesy Phaidon Press.

 

graduates from Polytechnic University of Turin

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opens his own architectural and industrial design studio in Milan

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i make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. —ettore sottsass

A schematic architectural sketch

Sketch for Casa Wolf (1987–89). © Sottsass Associati.

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