At the Milan design show this year, not a single sign of remembrance or gratitude for him (at least, not that I saw). The Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal, instead, remembers Ettore Sottsass a few months after his death, calling him "a legend of postwar Italian Design" and proudly informing its public that the Museum has already acquired for its permanent collection a good number of pieces designed by him. The Industry - whose wealth he greatly helped to consolidate - forgets him now that he can't design anymore, the people who loved his work don't. We live in times where business affects in one way or the other almost every single aspect of our lives. Perhaps the only way to be left in peace by the business machine is to die.
Carlton bookcase, designed by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis in the '80's, on display at Spazio, Austin.
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