Ettore

“Gio Ponti always talked about, and always taught, the idea of a place, a form and a possibility of total perfection beyond everyday chaos, everyday uncertainty and everyday obscurity. His hope for a place that was certain, for a place, as Gio Ponti himself said, essential, silent and transparent, has always helped me, and has always helped members of my generation, and even of the generation preceding mine. Not only this, but I believe that the desire for a fixed, ecstatic and crystalline truth has always followed poets, philosophers, priests and men…”

—Ettore Sottsass, 1999