Memphis Milano and Gufram are two historical brands of radical Italian design, each producing icons that have become part of the collective imagination all over the world. This week, they became ...

From 1981 to 1987, Memphis Milano and its collection of playfully geometric pieces took the world of design and architecture by storm, inspiring a wide array of imitators that would ultimately ...

The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Memphis Milano: Ahead of a new retrospective in Milan, we speak to curator Christoph Radl about why the Memphis design movement continues to make waves decades ...

When the Memphis Group –a cadre of designers, artists, and architects led by the great Italian designer Ettore Sottsass–debuted in 1981, its raucous patterns and playful furniture broke with ...

The Memphis Group was founded by Ettore Sottsass, an Italian designer, in 1980 – the name, apparently, comes from a Bob Dylan song, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again ...

Memphis-Milano design collection 2010. By Dennis Zanone licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license Led by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass, the collective ...

The '80s-era design collective Memphis Group believed that designers shouldn't be tools of industry. Today, the group's aesthetic has been co-opted by major companies, from Target to Puma.

Francesco Vezzoli’s apartment and studio are tributes to his lifelong fascination with the Memphis Group design collective. transcript The artist’s apartment and studio in Milan display his ...