You might’ve heard murmurs about Memphis Milano ... he and his group disregarded “good taste” in favor of the radical, funny, and outrageous. It was a philosophy more than a design imperative.

The iconic Memphis Milano company, founded by designer Ettore Sottsass, has been bought by Italian Radical Design, which also owns furniture company Gufram. Memphis Milano, which was founded in ...

The ’80s design movement known as Memphis has ... line with a print similar to Sottsass’s Bacterio pattern.) The Memphis Group stages its first U.S. show in a loft in Chelsea.

As Gufram and Memphis Milano convene under the newly formed group Italian Radical Design, of which Vezza will serve as CEO, the two brands will maintain their organizational autonomy.

But shortly before the group ... eventually design some other pieces in the following two years but somehow everything had changed. Memphis became a company – it became Memphis Milano.” ...

When the radical design collective Memphis Group made its bombastic debut at ... Design.Space in Los Angeles (which also featured a Memphis Milano room along with a slate of Memphis-inspired ...

Memphis-Milano design collection 2010 ... However, it is in the ambiguous meaning of the word that the group's real intention lies: Memphis can mean both the North American city and the capital ...

In her home, the artist Katherine Bernhardt conjures the giddy heyday of the Memphis design group. In a room of the ... but it could also be a Memphis Milano museum or an art gallery.

MILAN - Memphis, the Italian design brand that was endeared by David Bowie, Karl Lagerfeld and many other high-profile figures, is staging a comeback. During Salone del Mobile.Milano, which will ...

Iconic pieces from the Memphis group are brought together at a ... featuring exaggerated shapes and splashes of squiggly pattern and colour – incorporated as a reaction to more sedate mid century ...

Sottsass may have left the group in 1985, with it disbandoning by 1988, but the Memphis legacy certainly lives on, culminating with an upcoming talk by his wife Barbara Radice at London's Design ...