253 - Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass Hydebarad Seat Polychrome marble H79 L117 P66 cm 280 kg Weighing in at two hundred eighty kilograms of polychrome marble, Hydebarad takes Ettore Sottsass’s concept of furniture as architecture to the extreme. The chair is no longer a lightweight object that can be moved around, but a domestic monument—almost a throne—composed of stones of different hues assembled like the elements of a building. This penchant for juxtaposing materials and colors—at the heart of the Memphis aesthetic—finds a particularly solemn expression in marble. An exceptional piece, straddling the line between sculpture and furniture.