Its protruding color planes are as eloquent as Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue (8). The bookshelf laminate must have resulted from a theoretical paint battle between de Kooning’s surely hands (9) and Pollock’s drippy brushes (10). Although the green reptilian cabinet-facade reeks acerbic Art Nouveau, its gaudy decoration would find a place in Gustav Klimt’s heart (11). Ettore’s appreciation for contemporary artists and designers wasand is unrestricted to any one typology because he finds validity in multiple expressions.*

* Ettore Sottsass advised Roberto Olivetti of advantages in variant design viewpoints and convinced him to construct a free-lance atelier for leading designers.6

8. Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1928. 9. Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle, 1952-1953. 10. Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles, 1952. 11. Gustav Klimt, Expectation, 1905–1909.