When we think of the 1980s, immediately come to mind furniture with asymmetrical shapes, geometries of primary colors, telescoping of variegated laminates.
This highly fanciful furniture is due to Memphis, a collective whose founding father is the architect, author and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007).
Surrounded by talents such as Michele De Lucchi, Matteo Thun, Andrea Branzi or even Nathalie Du Pasquier, the Italian strives to dynamite the functionalist precepts that the use of an object defines its form.
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Pausania lamp, Ettore Sottsass for Artemide.
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Forget the dictates of ergonomics, good taste and mass production, make way for the most unbridled creations.
The movement is baptized Memphis in homage to the song by Bob Dylan
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
, also in reference to the city where Elvis Presley lived but also to the capital of ancient Egypt… The merry band likes to cover the tracks.
Mix of elements…
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