Hans Hollein’s credo: “Everything is design” fitted the architect’s extremely multidisciplinary interests. When he wasn’t busy writing manifestos, curating exhibitions, designing interiors, drawing, painting, teaching or (even) designing buildings, he turned his attention and flair for shapes to a whole range of products. In the 1960s, for example, he designed a desk for Hermann Miller; in the 1970s a furniture collection for Wittmann and a rather whimsical sunglasses collection for AO in the USA. A flirtation with Memphis in the 1980s led to a sofa, and vases in silver and Murano glass for another Italian avant-garde company, Cleto Munari. He joined the Alessi hall of architectural fame with a tea and coffee set for them in 1980, and in 1990 designed an extraordinary (but perhaps ill-advised) concert grand piano for Bösendorfer that Liberace would have died for had he not been dead already. (sl)
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