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Memphis is back. Remember multicoloured sofas with spheres and pyramids for feet, bookcases with jutting shelves in motley laminates? The 1980s Italian postmodernist movement – which thumbed its ...
'In my opinion, living "Memphis" means more than a love of bright colours, pattern and uncomfortable seating,' Bas reflects. 'It was an impassioned moment, a daring, bold-formed and wildly influential ...
You may not know its name, but you've likely seen the Ultrafragola mirror *all* over (and no, it didn't come from Tennessee).
Although you know it when you see it, it’s hard to accurately describe Memphis design without resorting to specific 1980s pop cultural references. It’s Pee-Wee’s Playhouse meets Miami Vice ...
The '80s-era design collective Memphis Group believed that designers shouldn't be tools of industry. Today, the group's aesthetic has been co-opted by major companies, from Target to Puma.
That’s the allure of the Memphis Design movement, which started in the 1980s by a group of Italian architects and designers known collectively as the Memphis Milano group. The iconic aesthetic—born ...
Memphis was a design movement hatched in the early Eighties by Milanese rebels who championed bold colours and quirky patterns. The name, inspired by a Bob Dylan track, described furniture ...
Totemism: Memphis meets Africa is an exhibition that will be on show at Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town, March 1-3, 2013. Curated by Lidewij Edelkoort and produced with the support of Woolworths ...
DESIGN PROFESSIONALS seemed to agree that the Memphis Group aesthetic wouldn’t last. They said the work from the Milan-based collective, with its 1980s kitsch and zany colors, had too many noisy ...