Ettore Sottsass is acclaimed as one of the leading architects and designers of the second half of the 20th century. After spending his childhood in Northern Italy, he follows in his father’s footsteps and enrolls at the Polytechnic University of Turin to study architecture. Whilst the early stages of his career are marked by the influence of Fauvism and Cubism, in 1961 he travels to India whose colors, customs and spirituality jostled his view of the world. Upon his return, Sottsass becomes ill and is hospitalized in California the following year. This journey proves fundamental due to his discovery of Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns’s Pop Art, which become an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Ettore Sottsass's ceramic and glass works are considered the highest expression of his visual language. His work is represented in many prestigious institutional collections, notably the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.