Ultrafragola mirror/lamp is designed in 1970 by Ettore Sottsass jr. for Poltronova with frame in vacuum-formed opaline PETG, mirror, LED or neon light system in pink color. The Ultrafragola mirror has been designed by Ettore Sottsass jr. in one colour only: light pink. The shape, the size and the complexity of the lighting system, the brightness and the colour might be perceived slightly different, depending on the light, the type of picture, or the background and the surrounding environment. Any different colours or shades of colour are not compliant with the original projects, they are not authentic.
Ultrafragola mirror/lamp, with its sinuous profile that suggests long wavy hair, belongs to the Mobili Grigi 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. Ultrafragola is a highly evocative item. Powerful in its name, thanks to the force of the prefix “Ultra”. Sensual, thanks to its characteristic intense pink colour, its shape that is a tribute to the female figure, with insistent repetition of soft curves that seem to expand infinitely.
Designed by Ettore Sottsass jr. in 1970, as part of the Mobili Grigi project, Ultrafragola is the only piece of that series that Poltronova has continued producing without a break from 1970 to now. In the year it was designed, Ultrafragola was the protagonist of an iconic shooting presentation, today its magnetism is so strong that one cannot help taking a picture of oneself framed in its luminous waves.
«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.»
[Ettore Sottsass jr., 1970]
Starting price (VAT included): € 8.784,00