Ettore Sottsass on Structure & Decoration

“Decoration, as we understand it, also includes a negligence of the constructive structure. This basic structure has always been a matter of faith, it was a must […] we imagine a possible complexity and do not search for what one can omit […] structure and decoration are identical.”

Barbara Radice, Memphis: Gesicht und Geschichte eines neues Stils, München 1988, S.87.