MEMPHIS
MEMPHIS was a Milan-based collective of young furniture and product designers led by the veteran Ettore Sottsass. After its 1981 debut, Memphis dominated the early 1980s design scene with its post-modernist style.
Carlton Cabinet 1981
Design: Ettore Sottsass
Beverly desk, 1981
Design: Ettore Sottsass
Nefertiti ceramic piece, 1981
Design: Matteo Thun
In 1981, Ettore Sottsass and a group of Italian designers and architects founded the "Memphis Group" as a reaction to "the personal, slick, humourless design" of modernism. The group disbanded in 1988.
I think these design pieces are incredibly vibrant, eccentric and have an kind of ornamental look to them. Even though a lot of the art doesn't make sense and the abstract forms of the sculptures are quite abstract, it shows that the Memphis group were trying to create a new experience for an audience and to also take a swipe at modernism seen to them as "boring".
– Adam Reid
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