id: 160268 accession number: 1998.149 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.149 updated: 2020-11-04 21:46:25.536000 Fruit Bowl, 1982. Ettore Sottsass (Italian, 1917-2007), Memphis Firm (Italian). Silver; diameter: 39.6 cm (15 9/16 in.); open and extended: 29.3 cm (11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Trideca Society 1998.149 title: Fruit Bowl title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1982 creation date earliest: 1982 creation date latest: 1982 current location: creditline: Gift of the Trideca Society copyright: --- culture: Italy, Milan, 20th century technique: silver department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Silver find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ettore Sottsass (Italian, 1917-2007) - designed by * Memphis Firm (Italian) - made at The most recent and best-known of Italian 'new wave' design groups. Founded in 1981 in Milan by Ettore Sottsass with Andrea Branzi, Michele De Iacchi (b. 1951) Matteo Thun (b. 1952) , Marco Zanini (b. 1954), Natalie Du Pasquier (b. 1957) and others. Non-Italians, notably Michael Graves and Hans Hollein, occasionally contributed designs. Anarchic and disruptive, Memphis is both anti-design and anti-ideology, despite much use of structuralist, semiologist and other fashionable jargons in its promotional literature. It flaunts the rejection of 'good form' and 'good taste' with a lavish use of gaudily colored plastic laminates redolent of suburban McDonald's or of nursery foods and sweets. It has been described as the ultimate fruit-salad in design, the 1981 Casablanca cupboard in HPL print laminate by Sottsass being its paradigmatic masterpiece. Besides furniture, the group has produced fabrics, ceramics, silver and glass. --- measurements: Diameter: 39.6 cm (15 9/16 in.); Open and extended: 29.3 cm (11 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 120, p. 123, repr. p. 89. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Acquires Major New Sculpture, Rare Chinese Prints, Contemporary Prints, Drawings & Photographs,” October 30, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4215 --- IMAGES