Prototype pitcher Yale University Art Gallery

1986

The Italian architect Ettore Sottsass was a founding member of the Memphis Group and a leader of the Postmodern style. Sottsass made this wooden prototype pitcher for Swid Powell, but it did not go into production. The angular forms and self-consciously clunky composition were typical of Sottsass's ceramics, although it is unknown if Sottsass intended this design to be produced in ceramic, glass, or metal. The prototype has graphite markings showing the center point and intended thickness of the walls.

Medium: Basswood
Dimensions: 8 × 7 × 3 in. (20.32 × 17.78 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line: Swid Powell Collection, Gift of Nan Swid
Accession Number: 2011.200.2
Geography: Designed in Milan, Italy
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Models
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Provenance

Swid Powell, New York, by 2001; Nan G. Swid, New York, 2001–2011; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2011

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