March 31st

Design Museum London
29 March – 10 June
Ettore Sottsass, the most celebrated designer of his generation celebrates his 90th birthday in September. Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980s design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti.
Sottsass has designed an exhibition with the Design Museum which explores a remarkable career that spans sixty years and moves from ceramics to mainframe computers and from poetry to pragmatism.
Ettore Sottsass - Work in Progress


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A window on the fantastical world of Luigi Colani, this exhibition brings together Colani's extraordinary large scale prototype designs including trucks, aircraft and cars. A great maverick of 20th Century design, with a career spanning almost six decades, Colani has applied his organic design style to produce biodynamic cars, boats, planes, ceramics and consumer goods, as well as creating alternative futuristic concepts for transport and architecture. A powerful influence on contemporary designers such as Ross Lovegrove and Future Systems, this retrospective of Colani’s work is curated by Albrecht Bangert and designed by Nigel Coates.