A Memphis-style living room. In this series, we’d like to give you a little primer on those icons – musicians, artists, designers, that are often cited by fashion designers, and editors, as ...
Growing up in 1950s L.A. Peter Shire began his aesthetic education in a rather unconventional place: the department store. "I loved them," gushes the designer and founding member of Memphis, a radical ...
Bold compositions in illuminating colours, Memphis designs are for the discerning art collectors Caroline Roux has written about art, design and architecture for publications including Wallpaper*, ...
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You might’ve heard murmurs about Memphis Milano. Maybe you read that it inspired Millennial Pink, have seen hints of its brash style on Pinterest, or you’ve noticed all your cool friends started ...
In case you haven’t noticed, Memphis is having a big moment. This past Friday, the third part of the Bowie/Collector “white glove” sale, the one devoted to Bowie’s collection of pieces by the radical ...
The late Ettore Sottsass, who in the 1980s joined the pop-culture firmament as the founder of the Memphis design group, once quipped that being the subject of a retrospective was “a bit macabre… a ...
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. It’s Saved ...
OF ALL THE TRENDS that emerged during the 1980s—DayGlo, Aqua Net-encrusted hairdos, black spaghetti—Memphis furniture surely ranks among the least likely candidates for revival. The movement, founded ...