Ultrafragola mirror

Designed in 1970 by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova as part of his "Mobili Grigi" series — a domestic furniture line that quietly rejected the heroic modernism of his peers — the Ultrafragola is at once a mirror, a sculpture and a light. Its undulating fibreglass frame, illuminated from within by soft pink neon, evokes a wave, a curl of hair, a body. Sottsass himself described the series as melancholic and intimate, the furniture of an interior life.

Largely overlooked at its 1970 debut, the Ultrafragola was rediscovered by a younger generation in the 2010s and has since become one of the most photographed objects in contemporary interior design. It is held in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou Paris.

Dimensions
H: 195 cm x W: 100 cm x D: 10 cm