Table pliante à quatre volets pliants en bois peint, in the style of Groupe Memphis
circa 1980

Biography

The Memphis Group, Italy, actif from 1980 to 1987.

The Memphis Group, also known as Memphis Milano, was an Italian design and architecture group founded by Ettore Sottsass. The group designed postmodern furniture, lighting, fabrics, carpets, ceramics, glass and metal objects.

The Memphis group’s work often incorporated plastic laminate and terrazzo materials and was characterized by ephemeral design featuring colorful and abstract decoration as well as asymmetrical shapes, sometimes arbitrarily alluding to exotic or earlier styles and designs.

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