Ettore Sottsass was born in Innsbruck and comes from a cultured environment. He spent his childhood in the Austrian
mountains, which very early influenced his taste for the interplay of volumes and colours. He moved to Italy when he was
quite young, and found there the material for his sources of inspiration. Sottsass graduated in Architecture at the
Polytechnic school of Turin, set up his own firm in Milan, worked in New York in the Sixties with George Nelson. During the
Seventies, the “Sottsass Associati” foundation and the “Memphis” group raised Sottsass to the rank of demigod, the
absolute reference of all generation of designers. Today, Sottsass creations are the fruit of a passionate encounter
between his fiery energy and Baccarat crystal, that he chisels in a “Sottsassian” way to bring its light out.
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Baccarat Crystal has, from the beginning, affixed its signature on strong works illustrating all the facets of artistic craftsmanship and covering a vast repertoire of inspiration.
In 1764 King Louis XV of France gave Bishop Montmorency-Laval of Metz permission to found a glassworks in the village of Baccarat located in Lorraine in eastern France.
The creations of great artists inspired by the magic of crystal are all magnificent stones brought together into building the Art de Vivre collection.
This is how Baccarat perpetuates the great French tradition of a cosmopolitan art of living. Envisioned by Philippe Starck, the Baccarat House in Paris, home to the brand’s headquarters, is a meeting place for its most beautiful creations – and one of its most beautiful manifestations.
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