LAUSANNE.- Following upon Post Mortem : dix créateurs repensent l’urne funéraire (ten creators rethink funerary urns) and In vino veritas : a project by Matali Crasset, the mudac continues to explore glass design editions through the work of Ettore Sottsass and Pierre Charpin. A major figure in the realm of design, Ettore Sottsass, who passed away in 2007, founded the Memphis Group in 1981. Internationally acclaimed for putting a new light on the link between architecture and design, he focused his research on defining forms and space, granting much importance to light and color. Having studied the visual arts, Pierre Charpin’s first influences were the conceptual and minimal art theories. Yet in the early 1990s, he set out on the more concrete path of design rather than aesthetic research. A decisive moment came with his discovery of the Memphis outlook of “not thinking of objects only according to their structure but also in terms of surface, color,