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MEMPHIS MOVEMENT
1 9 8 0 ’ S
WHAT WORDS WOULD YOU USE
TO DESCRIBE IT?
JASPER MORRISON is one of today's most influential industrial
designers
WHERE DID IT START?• It all started with Ettore Sottsass who wanted their work
to rebel against previous design which he thought was
soulless. The slick "black box" design favoured by makers
of nearly everything in late-1970s from typewriters and
cameras to office furniture, cars and buildings themselves.
• Memphis created nonconformist furniture, by exploring
colour and new materials and by glorying in the
cheesiness of consumer culture.
Founded by Ettore Sottsass
WHO WAS INVOLVED?
• Martine Bedin,
• Aldo Cibic
• Michele De Lucchi
• Matteo Thun
• Marco Zanini
• Barbara Radice
• They were group of young
architects.
WHAT MATERIALS DID THEY USE?• They experimented with unconventional
materials and made furniture made from
the flashily coloured plastic laminates
emblazoned with kitsch geometric and
leopard-skin patterns usually found in
1950s comic books or cheap cafés.
• Other pieces of furniture and lights were
made from industrial materials – printed
glass, neon tubes and zinc-plated sheet-
metals –with flamboyant colours and
patterns, spangles and glitter.
• Look at the work on the sheet, what
materials do you think they have
used?
SUPER LAMP
• Martine Bedin’s 1981
Superlamp resembled an
illuminated dachshund with
multi-coloured bulbs framing
a richly-coloured fibreglass
arc.
CARLTON BOOKCASE
• Designed by Ettore Sottsass,
1981
• Intended for a luxury market
it is made of cheap plastic
laminates rather than fine
woods. The vivid colours and
seemingly random surfaces
and sections could look like
an avant-garde painting and
sculpture.
TAHITI LAMP
•Ettore Sottsass ,1981,
enamelled metal and
plastic laminate.
CERAMICS
Ettore Sottsass, Six-piece
ceramic totem
Ettore Sottsass, Teapot From
the series "Indian Memory"
HOW HAS MEMPHIS
INFLUENCED DESIGN TODAY?
FASHION
• American Apparel has launched a 43-piece collection of clothing featuring graphic prints by Memphis Group designer Nathalie Du Pasquier
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/03/25/american-apparel-capsule-collection-with-memphis-designer-nathalie-du-pasquier/
ZOË MOWAT
• “I feel like this new Memphis, is very much about surfaces. It comes through in surface, with the use of bold colours, patterns, textures and a variety of materials.”
• Mowat’s Arbor jewellery stand is made up of minimal shapes with function; a platform for rings and a hand mirror hang from a dowel that can be removed and draped with necklaces.
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SYRETTE LEW• She incorporated engineered marble
into the step-like shelving to
reference the laminate patterns
often used in Memphis designs.
• “As someone who is used to
designing very practical furniture
pieces, it can be liberating and
exciting to not have function be
constantly at the forefront of your
thoughts,” says Lew. “The tenets of
Memphis allow you to experiment
and blur the line between art and
design.”