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Designer, Ettore Sottsass, Dead at 90

Ettore Sottsass
Photo J. Emilio Flores For The New York Times

Ettore Sottsass, an éminence grise of postmodern design who helped found the influential Memphis Group and was responsible for the familiar bright red plastic Olivetti typewriter, died Monday at his home in Milan. He was 90.

{via International Herald Tribune}