This $9.8 Million Maui Home Is a Design Icon From the Memphis Group
Designed by Ettore Sottsass, the distinctive architecture has been kept exactly as he asked for 21 years.
A 1,500-square-foot deck is part of the property.
Photographer: Trade Winds Photography
The entrance to the home of Adrian and Lesley Olabuenaga looks like the gateway to a fun house dreamed up by Dr. Seuss: A fire-engine-red door gives way to a canary-yellow entryway, and once inside there’s a glass table held up by a sphere, a square, and a triangle. One bathroom is tiled in Pepto-Bismol pink.
For 21 years, the owners have kept their Maui home exactly as it was imagined by its architect, Ettore Sottsass. The Italian designer was the driving force behind the Memphis Group, a loose coalition of artists who developed the zany patterns and bright colors that defined the late 1980s and early ’90s. He built only seven houses during his lifetime, and this one, completed in 1997, is arguably his most distinctive.