id:			160268
accession number:	1998.149
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.149
updated:		2022-07-02 09:00:54.917000

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
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creation date:			1982
creation date earliest:		1982
creation date latest:		1982
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creditline:			Gift of the Trideca Society
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culture:	Italy, Milan, 20th century
technique:	silver
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Silver
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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.
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measurements: Diameter: 39.6 cm (15 9/16 in.); Open and extended: 29.3 cm (11 9/16 in.)
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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
	<i>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

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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.

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Acquires Major New Sculpture, Rare Chinese Prints, Contemporary Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs,” October 30, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4215

	Sims, Lowery Stokes. <em>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 89, no. 120
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