Ettore Sottsass, “Carlton” Room Divider, 1981. Manufacturer:
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Get it written →Ettore Sottsass, “Carlton” Room Divider, 1981. Manufacturer: Memphis Milano. Wood, plastic laminate, height 6 ft. 4-3/4 in., width 6 ft. 2-3/4 in., depth 15-3/4 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, 1997.460.1a-d. Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence © Ettore Sottsas © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
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It might surprise you to learn that Ettore Sottsass’s Carlton Room Divider is for sale today at the Memphis store in Milan, Italy for €12, 240 (at this writing, the Euro and the dollar are roughly equivalent). To borrow Charles Jencks’s term, what “semantic group” was it designed to please? Or, put another way, where might you expect to find one? Would you want to own one yourself? Why or why not?
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