DESIGN PROFESSIONALS seemed to agree that the Memphis Group aesthetic wouldn’t last. They said the work from the Milan-based collective, with its 1980s kitsch and zany colors, had too many noisy ...

For Sottsass, Memphis demonstrated that there was more to contemporary Italian design than polite good taste. Memphis was trying to have things both ways, mixing high art and popular culture; the ...

Learn how what started as a rebuke of mainstream design became one of the biggest pop culture influences of the 1980s—and why its impact continues today.

Image banks such as FreePik, UnDraw, and Adobe’s own vector art library, have played a massive part in letting non-illustrators co-opt the Corporate Memphis style for themselves. Corporate ...

Far from neon and Memphis design - many 1980s’ homes also saw country-style chintz, or printed multicoloured cotton fabric, often in floral and leaf patterns, used for beds and upholstery.

The best pieces to buy of the Memphis design movement in 2017, now that the 1980’s trend is back in a big way. The ’80s design movement is back. Intelligencer ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In April 1981, at Milan’s Salone del Mobile, a newly launched Italian design collective calling itself the ...

Hopefully, this referential experimentation – playing with forms, colours and materials – will yield a fresh style,” says Pete Oyler, who co-founded the design studio Assembly with Nora ...