Memphis: 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance
Feb 06, 2021 - Feb 27, 2022
The Memphis group of Italian designers and architects was one of the most unusual phenomena in the design of the past decades. Despite its short-lived existence from 1981 to 1987, its history and impact are legendary. With their bright colours and fantastic patterns, Memphis designs seemed to have walked off the pages of a comic book and gave rise to a completely new look in which popular culture, an advertising aesthetic, and post-modernism merged in a crazy medley. Forty years after the group was founded, the exhibition 禄Memphis: 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance芦 at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery presents objects, drawings, and material from the archives giving insight into the Memphis world. The group鈥檚 main protagonists will also be introduced, from its mentor Ettore Sottsass to Michele de Lucchi, Martine Bedin, Michael Graves, Barbara Radice, Peter Shire, and Shiro Kuramata.
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