Ultrafragola Mirror/lamp By Ettore Sottsass For Poltronova, Italy

The Ultrafragola mirror / lamp with its sinuous shape, evocative of a wavy female hair, belongs to the Gray Furniture series, a complete bedroom and living room, designed by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova and presented at the third edition of Eurodomus in 1970. All but Ultrafragola remained at the prototype stage. «As for the lights that come out of the" Gray Furniture ”, don't the graves always have flickering lights that illuminate the sadness of the wandering spaces in the dusty valley? And don't submarines have flickering green lights in their bellies? The lights are thought to come out of the fiberglass body, like the bright white of the white skin of the breasts, or the bright red of the tip of the penis on pornographic nights, something like that, I mean something like Japanese fire