Feste in Brianza. Le grafiche di Ettore Sottsass e gli eventi nella falegnameria di Renzo Brugola

Within the design career of Ettore Sottsass, in the second half of the Sixties, it is possible to find three apparently surprising projects: three invitations for as many parties, organized in the carpentry shop of one of his collaborators and friends, Renzo Brugola. This article aims to reconstruct the context of these works and the respective parties, starting from the designer’s archives, to try to focus on their importance with respect to the pacifist cultural scene called “beat” and the counterculture of which Sottsass and his wife Fernanda Pivano were entertainers.