MEMPHIS
RESEARCH, EXPERIENCES, RESULTS,
FAILURES AND SUCCESSES OF NEW DESIGN
Barbara Radice
Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass [Introduction]: MEMPHIS: RESEARCH, EXPERIENCES, RESULTS, FAILURES AND SUCCESSES OF NEW DESIGN. New York: Rizzoli 1984. First Edition, with the Electa Italian-language Dust jacket. Introduction by Ettore Sottsass. A fine hardcover book in a very good or better dust jacket: top edge lightly yellowed. A collectible copy of this landmark book. Written by a member of the Memphis group, the book is a Memphis work itself.
8.25 x 11.75 hardcover book with 207 pages and profusely illustrated with color and b/w photos and drawings; index of photographers; index of illustrators. Cover the furniture, glass, ceramics and textiles.
"Memphis is not in any Atlas. It is a state of the soul, the soul at the end of the 20th century. If you didn't know that the 20th century had a soul -- now you know." George Nelson.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Memphis
- Plastic Laminate
- Materials
- Decoration
- Color
- The Memphis Idea
- The Design
- Memphis and Fashion
Includes work by Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi, Gerard Taylor, Michael Graves, Aldo Cibic, Nathalie du Pasquier, George James Sowden, Michele de Lucchi, Shiro Kuramata, Peter Shire, Arquitectonica, Hans Hollein, Marco Zanini, Javier Mariscal, Matteo Thun, Thomas Bley, Martine Bedin and others.
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