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Up For Sale Today is

Design Metaphors

by

Ettore Sottsass
Edited by Barbara Radice

Trade Paperback. 8vo. Published by Rizzoli, New York. 1988.  61 pages. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing.

Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

Photographs depict conceptual "constructions" made of simple materials which comment on the interplay of architectural design with natural landscapes

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

Ettore Sottsass (14 September 1917 – 31 December 2007) was an Italian architect and designer during the 20th century. His body of work included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home objects and office machine design, as well as many buildings and interiors.

 

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