"Everything we did was entirely absorbed in the act of doing it, in wanting to do it, and everything we did stayed ultimately inside a single extraordinary sphere of life. The design was life itself, it was the day from dawn till dusk, it was the waiting during the night, it was an awareness of the world around us, of materials and lights, distances and weights, resistance, fragilities, use and consumption, birth and death…"
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When I Was a Very Small Boy: Observatory: Design Observer - Beautiful words from Ettore Sottsass, designer of the famous red Olivetti typewriter.
(via clusterflock)
