Image: Artizon Museum, Tokyo
Tokyo’s Artizon Museum has highlighted an exhibition devoted to Ettore Sottsass, presenting more than 100 works held by the Ishibashi Foundation. The announcement describes the selection as an examination of what “design” means through the work of the Italian designer, who continued to question the subject throughout his life.
The presentation spans several media, including furniture, ceramics, glass, photography and drawings. Rather than focusing on a single category of Sottsass’s practice, the selection is framed as a broad view of his activity across design and related visual forms.
Sottsass is identified in the announcement as a major figure in Italian design, while the works on view are drawn from the Ishibashi Foundation’s collection. The Artizon Museum’s post presents the exhibition under the Japanese hashtag for a Sottsass exhibition, but does not provide a formal English title.
The museum’s announcement, published on August 27, 2026, invites visitors to encounter Italian design through the exhibition. It does not specify the opening venue, exhibition dates, admission details or the individual works included in the selection.
The available information is therefore limited to the exhibition’s stated scope: more than 100 works from the Ishibashi Foundation collection, encompassing furniture, ceramics, glass, photographs and drawings, and addressing Sottsass’s sustained inquiry into the meaning of design.
