Memphis Again

ISBN 10: 8836652719 / ISBN 13: 9788836652716

Published by Silvana Editoriale, 2022

Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE PAPERBACK Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # M8836652719Z2

Synopsis:

The volume presents the series of objects and furnishings conceived and produced by Memphis design collective between 1981 and 1986. The group, under the leadership of Ettore Sottsass, intended to react to the minimal, functional and almost austere design that had characterised the industrial production of previous years, proposing a new language that mixed elegance and kitsch, thanks to the use of different materials, shapes asymmetrical and unexpected combinations. A project that, by contrasting the pleasure of decoration and play, with a narrow vision of functionalism, has quickly conquered the public and the press from all over the world and, while running out in five years, has marked a renewal in the world of design, not only in Milan but internationally.

Designers: Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice, Michele De Lucchi, Martine Bedin, George J. Sowden, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Aldo Cibic, Matteo Thun, Marco Zanini, Andrea Branzi, Michael Graves, Hans Hollein, Shiro Kuramata, Peter Shire, Masanori Umeda, Arata Isozaki, Terry Jones, Javier Mariscal, Arquitectonica, Gerard Taylor, Bruno Gregori di Studio Alchymia, Robert Mangurian, Paola Navone, Daniela Puppa, Maria Sanchez, Luigi Serafini, Thomas Bley, Rudi Haberl, Walter Kirpicsenko, Michael Podgorschek, Christoph Radl.

Text in English and Italian.

From the Back Cover: The volume presents the series of objects and furnishings conceived and produced by Memphis design collective between 1981 and 1986. The group, under the leadership of Ettore Sottsass, intended to react to the minimal, functional and almost austere design that had characterized the industrial production of previous years, proposing a new language that mixed elegance and kitsch, thanks to the use of different materials, shapes asymmetrical and unexpected combinations. A project that, by contrasting the pleasure of decoration and play, with a narrow vision of functionalism, has quickly conquered the public and the press from all over the world and, while running out in five years, has marked a renewal in the world of design, not only in Milan but internationally.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Memphis Again
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good