Big-Idea Designers Displayed
Anyone involved in design should find plenty to contemplate – perhaps to be inspired by – in two current New York exhibits: Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, at the Museum of Modern Art, through October 1; Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical, at the Met Breuer, through October 8. Wright, quintessentially American, remains probably the world’s most famous Modern architect-designer 60 years after his death. The design accomplishments and ideas of the Italian Sottsass, 10 years departed, are well worth exposure, lest they be forgotten. Wright: Dipping into the Archive It’s just impossible to mount a comprehensive show on the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed over 1,000 buildings, over 500 of them built. And his designs encompassed more than just buildings, but included whole communities at one extreme and at the other the most thorough design of interiors — including tableware and occasionally even what his clients …
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