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A flamingo Side Table for Memphis Group (1984 Italy)

A flamingo Side Table for Memphis Group
     
Artists/Makers/Factories

MICHELE DE LUCCHI (born 1951)

Medium

Laminated Wood and Plastic.

Signed/Inscribed/Dated

Memphis, Michelle de Lucchi 1984.

Dimensions

40.00cm wide   92.00cm high   53.00cm deep (15.75 inches wide  36.22 inches high  20.87 inches deep)

Condition

very good condition

Description / Expertise

A Flamingo side table designed by Michele de Lucchi for Memphis. Italy,Circa 1984.
The group was founded by Ettore Sottsass led on 16 December 1980, and resolved to meet again with their designs in February 1981. The result was a highly-acclaimed debut at the 1981 Salone del Mobile of Milan, the world's most prestigious furniture NEWY fair. The group, which eventually counted among its members Alessandro Mendini, Martine Bedin, Andrea Branzi, Aldo Cibic, Michele de Lucchi, Nathalie du Pasquier, Michael Graves, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozaki, Shiro Kuromata, Matteo Thun, Javier Mariscal, George Sowden, Marco Zanini, and the journalist Barbara Radice,[1] Sottsass left the group in 1985 and it disbanded in 1988 after the last 1987 collection.
Named after the Bob Dylan song Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, the movement was a reaction against the post-Bauhaus "black box" designs of the 1970s and had a sense of humor that was lacking at the time in design.

Ettore Sottsass, called Memphis design the "New International Style".

In contrast the Memphis Group offered bright, colorful, shocking pieces. The colors they used contrasted the dark blacks and browns of European furniture.

All this would seem to suggest that the Memphis Group was very superficial but that was far from the truth. The group intended to develop a new creative approach to design.

SOLD