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The designer reflects on his youth: "I thought I knew everything. Now I know I know nothing." (photo: Santi Caleca) |
His watercolor of Prosperity Village, the residential community in China that borders his 1996 Zhaoquing golf club, is a mirthful mélange of colors and forms. (courtesy of Sottsass Associati) |
It could be said that Jasmine Hill, a residential development in Singapore completed in 1996, is similarly a work of anit-architecture, as it looks like a series of toy-like structures. (photo: Santi Caleca) |
Sottsass designed the Valentine typewriter (with Perry A. King) for Olivetti in 1969 to be an "anti-machine machine," for use "anyplace but an office. (Cooper- Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithonian Institution/Art Resource, NY) |
Valentine typewriter (1969) (Cooper- Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithonian Institution/Art Resource, NY) |
