Memphis
- Created by: Anwen
- Created on: 22-05-14 14:27
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- Memphis
- History
- 1980
- led by Ettore Sottsass
- Cornerstone of modernism
- Dylunio yn cael ei ystyried yn hen ffasiwn
- Steiliau haniaethol (abstract) yn diflannu ar ol tymor o fod ar y farchnad
- Ettore Sotsass
- Born - Austria - 1917
- Study - 1935 - architecture
- 1981 - formed Memphis group
- Freelance architect and designer
- Experimented with designs competed with modernism with Memphis
- 'from should follow function'
- New ways of combining material and using influences
- Culture
- Art
- History
- Lighting
- Fibreglass lamp
- Glossy art deco look
- offset by the lamps bare bulbed simplicity
- 1981
- Lamp
- Late 1970's by Sotsass
- Plastic, Laminad, a metel
- Disney-like naivety + impudence with so many Memphis products
- Fibreglass lamp
- Furniture
- Bwrdd ochr Carlton
- Defnydd wedi ei orchuddio mewn plastig laminad
- Symbolig moment to all things memphis
- Part cartoon (totum pole)
- Joins pop culture and ancient cultures
- sofa
- different historical styles
- D'antibes Cabinet
- looks fragile and playful because of the long spindly legs
- Painted in bright nursery colours
- Chair
- simple stool with an aluminium tube as a backrest
- Bwrdd ochr Carlton
- Tawaraya ring
- 1981 Masanori Umeda
- History
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