Ettore Sottsass, the most celebrated designer of his generation celebrated his 90th birthday in September 2007. Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980s design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti.

Sottsass designed an exhibition with the Design Museum which explored a remarkable career that spans sixty years and moves from ceramics to mainframe computers and from poetry to pragmatism.