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ULTRAFRAGOLA By Poltronova
Collection: Ultrafragola
Designer: Ettore Sottsass
Manufacture year: 1970
Type: PETG mirror/lamp
Ultrafragola mirror/lamp, with its sinuous profile that suggests long wavy hair, belongs to the “The grey furniture” series of complete bedroom and living room furnishings designed by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova and presented at the third edition of Eurodomus in 1970. With the exception of Ultrafragola, the models never got beyond the prototype phase. «As for the lights that are coming out of “The grey furniture”, don’t tombs always have a trembling light to illuminate the blue of the spirits wandering in the valley of dust? Don’t submarines have a trembling green light in their belly? The lights anyway are supposed to come out from the fibreglass bodies, like the ever–glowing of the breast’s white skin, like the ever–glowing of the penis red head in pornographic nights, something of this kind: I mean something like the Japanese lights of the glow worm that are turning the nights into matter. Could anything be more ridiculous?» [Ettore Sottsass jr., 1970] Materials: Vacuum—formed opaline PETG, mirror, LED lighting Colors: Frame opaline white, Light “Ultrafragola” light pink. The brightness and the color might be perceived slightly different, depending on the light, the background and the surrounding environment.