Ettore Sottsass, Jr.'Murmansk' centerpiece, designed 1982 Precious metal.29.5 cm high, 35.7 cm diameterManufactured by Rossi & Arcandi, Vicenza for Memphis, Milan, Italy. Impressed twice MEMPHIS/MILANO and stamped thrice with Italian assay mark, purity mark 925.Footnotes:LiteratureMemphis Milano, Milan, 1986, p. 57Albrecht Bangert, Italian Furniture Design: Ideas, Styles, Movements, Munich, 1988, p. 171Barbara Radice, Memphis, Milan, 1984, p. 117Gilles de Bure, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Collection Rivages/Styles, dirigée par Gilles de Bure, Paris, 1987, p. Poul ter Hofstede, Memphis 1981-1988, exh. cat., Groninger Museum, Groningen, 1989, cat. no. 158Museu do Design: Luxo, Pop, Cool, De 1937 Até Hoje, exh. cat., Museu do Design, Lisbon, 1999, pl. 211Ronald T. Labaco, Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, London, 2006, p. 67Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011, p. 162For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com