“I designed these projects as if they had been proposed by someone else—someone far removed from the trajectory of thought concerned with the city, since I considered that thought concerned with the city has, up to now, only projected, wherever it comes from and wherever it goes, the insane, sick, dangerous and aggressive idea that men must live only to work and must work to produce and then consume.” –Ettore Sottsass

Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass’s The Planet as Festival drawings depict a fantastical, technological world designed for human pleasure. His proposals include rafts for listening to chamber music on a river, a stadium to watch the stars, and a dispenser of waltzes, tangos, rock, and cha-cha.
–Andrew Gardner, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design