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MEMPHIS MILANO

THE MEMPHIS
GROUP

The group that succeeded in implementing the revolutionary intuition: creating shapes that blend in a crazy mixture with a disruptive aesthetic, between kitsch and elegance.

  • "DESIGN IS A WAY OF DISCUSSING LIFE. IT IS A WAY OF DISCUSSING SOCIETY, POLITICS, EROTICISM, FOOD AND EVEN DESIGN.DESIGN IS A WAY OF DISCUSSING LIFE. IT IS A WAY OF DISCUSSING SOCIETY, POLITICS, EROTICISM, FOOD AND EVEN DESIGN." - E. SOTTSASS     ---    
  • "DESIGN IS A WAY OF DISCUSSING LIFE. IT IS A WAY OF DISCUSSING SOCIETY, POLITICS, EROTICISM, FOOD AND EVEN DESIGN.DESIGN IS A WAY OF DISCUSSING LIFE. IT IS A WAY OF DISCUSSING SOCIETY, POLITICS, EROTICISM, FOOD AND EVEN DESIGN." - E. SOTTSASS     ---    

MILANO
1981-1985

It was the evening of 11 December 1980, an old vinyl record plays Bob Dylan's Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again. Memphis exists!

  • "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MEMPHIS STYLE. MEMPHIS IS AN ATTITUDE." - G. J. SOWDEN     ---    
  • "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MEMPHIS STYLE. MEMPHIS IS AN ATTITUDE." - G. J. SOWDEN     ---    

EXHIBITIONS

The icons of Memphis Milano have been exhibited and are part of the permanent collections of the world's most important museums of art, design and applied art.

  • "I HAVE ALWAYS HAD THE SAME OBSESSION: CAN WE IMAGINE A NEW WORLD BY DESIGNING ANOTHER CHAIR, ANOTHER TABLE, ANOTHER LAMP, ANOTHER VASE?" - M. BEDIN     ---    
  • "I HAVE ALWAYS HAD THE SAME OBSESSION: CAN WE IMAGINE A NEW WORLD BY DESIGNING ANOTHER CHAIR, ANOTHER TABLE, ANOTHER LAMP, ANOTHER VASE?" - M. BEDIN     ---    
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