Triennale Milano Presents Sala Sottsass,  a Permanent Installation to Honour Ettore Sottsass

Triennale Milano presents the permanent installation Sala Sottsass, a tribute to the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass. Opening to the public tomorrow, the installation consists of the reconstruction of Sottsass’s mid-1960’s oeuvre, Casa Lana, to be permanently displayed on the first floor of the Palazzo dell’Arte. Alongside Casa Lana will be a series of temporary exhibitions and events highlighting the different facets of the great master’s work and his contributions to the worlds of design, art architecture, both in Italy and beyond. 

Sala Sottsass houses the reconstruction and permanent display of the living room of Casa Lana, a private residence designed by Ettore Sottsass in Milan during the mid-1960s, showcased here to the public thanks to a donation by Barbara Radice Sottsass, the designer’s wife. “Today Triennale Milano is giving the world a wonderful surprise: the faithful reconstruction of a part of Ettore Sottsass’s Casa Lana, a ‘room within a room’ that Triennale Milano has dismantled and reassembled exactly as it was, thanks to the assistance of Iskra Grisogono of Studio Sottsass and to conversations with the family of the original owner. Milan is now home to an authentic time machine, created by one of the international geniuses of the twentieth century” says Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano.