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The illustration style is flat, geometric, figurative, and usually made up of solid colours. Nondescript figures are plastered across train stations and bus stops, from fintech company MoneyFarm ...
What comes after midcentury modern? Designs inspired by the next decades. Reimagined looks from the 1960s and ‘70s have emerged, along with several nods to the 1980s, with all its brightly colored ...
Part of the reason is that Memphis Design came from a consciously ephemeral place. When I ask about the debut collection’s 1981 catalogue that read, “We are all sure that Memphis furniture ...
A sampling of recent home goods from veteran craftspeople. Born in Japan and educated in London, Hiroko Takeda came to New York City in 2001 to work with the eminent textile artist Jack Lenor Larsen.
DESIGN PROFESSIONALS seemed to agree that the Memphis Group aesthetic wouldn’t last. They said the work from the Milan-based collective, with its 1980s kitsch and zany colors, had too many noisy ...
Pomo summer: textile designer Camille Walala's collection of home accessories patterned with bold graphics influenced by the Memphis Group will launch at this month's London Design Festival. The ...
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 ...