The dark blue atmosphere is lit up, the American DJ SethTroxler creates a beautiful sound for BGM, and a bizarre catwalk show has become a highlight of this Milan Design Week.
● 2022 Milan Design Week "Memphis Ain" exhibition works
The exhibition "Memphis Ain", co-produced by curator ChristophRadl and co-produced by Triennale Milano (Milan Triennale Museum) and Memphis Milano, features more than 200 MemphisGroup-style classics from 1981-1986 on the "runway" chronological order.
Surprise, revelry, raucousness, it is not an exaggeration to describe this exhibition in warm words.
● "MemphisAgain" exhibits more works
Back in China, the first large-scale Memphis style design exhibition in China, "The Past and Present Life of Memphis", which was exhibited in Shenzhen Sea World Culture and Art, provided an entrance for domestic audiences to understand the Memphis style by displaying the works of one of the most important organizations in the design community in the 20th century: the Memphis Group.
● "The Past and Present Life of Memphis" exhibition work
Starting from the Bauhaus, the exhibition completely sorts out and presents the "past and present" of the Memphis group in the history of modern and contemporary design, and also brings together nearly 200 classic works, covering furniture, lamps, hanging paintings, carpets, porcelain and ornaments.
● "The Past and Present Life of Memphis" exhibition site shooting works
The Memphis style, which seems to have become popular all over the Internet in recent years, actually broke the general rules of internationalism more than 50 years ago and established a new set of postmodernist design languages for the world.
From 1981 to 1987, Memphis's playful designs were all the rage, sparking a boom in design and architecture, inspiring followers including rock guru David Bowie and fashionable Galeries Lafayette Karl Lagerfeld. Memphis-style products also entered retail stores, including Macy's and Bloomingdale's, and began to change people's aesthetic perception of the home, and even made this style a figurative symbol of elite culture.
Karl Lagerield turned his apartment in Monte Carlo into a showroom, showcasing many of the iconic Memphis-style furniture, like a museum
As Italian designer Aldo Cibic explains: "MemphisGroup resets everything that was seen before designing".
● MemphisGroup style furniture at David Bowie's auction
At the moment when the frigid wind fills the street, this bright, funny, and colorful bright color, with its bells and whistles, mixed with childlike rebellious design, has now unexpectedly gained the love of many young people.
Next, the inspirationer takes you to see the application of Memphis style in interior design, can it bring you some inspiration and refreshing feelings?
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Designer: Daria Zinovatnaya
Dalia Zinovatnaya, a post-90s designer from Ukraine, is a dazzling new designer in the field of international industrial design in recent years, and a fashion red at INS. Deeply influenced by the Memphis school of the late 1980s, her works demonstrate her masterful use of geometry, color, and space, and her work reflects a high degree of rationalized visual effects.
DariaZinovatnaya
(Dalia Zinovanaya)
In 2017, 27-year-old Daria won the Red Dot Design Award for her Cherokee collection of furniture, a bold and profound work that showcases her masterful use of geometry, colour and space. The whole theme is based on pure geometric circles, and the jumping colors and minimalist shapes make people feel mysterious and shocking.
● Red Dot Award-winning "Cherokee" furniture: the combination of geometric shapes, coupled with the color scheme of red, blue and yellow, reminiscent of the Dutch style, visually giving people a highly rigorous sense of order.
Daria Zinovatnaya's work is highly recognizable, and while it is eye-catching, it also flashes the shadow of many artistic masters, such as the ITTEN furniture collection that pays tribute to bauhaus color master Johannes Itten. The series consists of a multitude of furniture and luminaires, and Daria uses new shape combinations to make the whole picture look like an indoor scene from a futuristic sci-fi movie
● ITTEN furniture series
Daria has always been able to combine bold colors and geometric shapes to create extraordinary design projects, but if you look closely, you can feel the highly rational visual effects in her work, such as the space daria designed for the Utopia apartment, which uses rich colors in many places without being dazzling.
● Utopia apartment design
In more interior design, Dalia is more bold in her use of color and shape, and Daria likes to integrate artwork into the scenes of daily life.
● In the interior design of the "Corb Series", the works of the Dutch Style master Piet Mondrian are enlarged on the entire wall, creating a harmonious sense of order together with the abstract shapes and neutral colors of household products. Let the rebellion be
The motivation to "jump out of the box"
Design Agency: Masquespacio
Spanish design has always been a presence in the international design community with its colorful and bold color collocation and imaginative style, and the design brand Masquespacio is one of the leaders.
Founder of Masquespacio
AnaMilena Hernández Palacios (left)
ChristophePenasse (right)
Masquespacio's distinctive hallmark is the creation of vibrant spaces with bright colors, and in their hands, the Memphis style has a new interpretation.
They present their special visions in an independent way through the new experimental brand MassCreations, and focus on exploring the relationship between space, objects and furniture, using visually impactful color collocations, flexible use of color blocks and mixing and matching of vivid geometric figures to create futuristic impressions.
● MasCreations/3D display scene
Masquespacio excels at using a variety of furniture and lighting products in the space to show a creative environment that subverts the traditional fun and stimulates the imagination. The Arco Houtique collection of furniture, for example, continues Memphis's original 70s inspiration, blending cold industrial metal with comfortable, soft cushions, plus soft, lively colours for a dramatic effect.
● ArcoHoutique series furniture
Combining brightly coloured padding with a selection of marble, wood and electroplated metal materials, the Toadstool range of furniture is available in a myriad of combinations that allow users to freely combine them according to their individual material and colour preferences.
● Toadstool series furniture
Of course, Masquespacio's most famous work in the furniture category is the Dr. Workshop high stool on display at Milan Design Week 2021, a perforated metal inspired by Pantone's Vilbert chair for IKEA, which uses a purple mirror effect to give the design a more avant-garde look.
● Dr. Workshop high stool
In addition to the personalized color space scene and the playful and bright furniture
Masquespacio is also very good at using creative space to pay tribute to the retro-futuristic trend. In San Mames' latest university apartment designed for Resa, Masquespacio has created colorful public "community" spaces for it.
● Different areas are connected to each other to form a transparent layout, and the common areas are distinguished by different color blocks
● Apartment corridor
Masquespacio uses color-blocking technology to give the space a strong visual effect, while clearly distinguishing each area of the open space. The terrace design uses the same color scheme as the interior floor, walls and furniture, creating the same strong visual impact outside.
●A terrace with a strong visual impact
As people's time at home gradually increases, there is also more and more thinking about choosing home design. There is no doubt that this is a turning point for the home furnishing industry: people are beginning to yearn for furniture with bright colors, strange shapes and interesting tastes.
The revival of the Memphis style did not happen overnight, people gradually accepted it in the changing aesthetic needs, the large and neat, simple and cold furniture seems to be too serious, compared to the minimalism that has been embraced for many years, the memphis style of bold and colorful abstract design is more fun for people.
● Memphis-style modern residence designed by the design team ARTGROUP
Bright colors and strange shapes prove that designers under the imagination are doing their best to inject fun and hope into their works and people's lives. Memphis design brings us a rich visual feast High-saturation contrast combinations are interspersed with geometric elements such as points, lines, and surfaces, which use imagination to awaken the lively and enthusiastic emotions in the user's heart.
Not only in the field of interior design, but also in many areas of design, from graphic posters to fashion collocations: people are desperate for fun. The collision of highly saturated colors, the extreme variety of graphic patterns, the large-scale use of prints, etc. have all brought the "Memphis" style to pursue a sense of freedom and brave fun.
● Design cases in other areas of the Memphis style
Trends are fleeting, but Memphis has broken the rules of time and has a style of its own that lives on in the history of design, continuing to send creative inspiration to generations of designers and encouraging the possibility of creating more designs.
A lamp, a vase, a table, perhaps no longer just a functional existence, but more of a metaphysical poetic aesthetic, and "Memphis" is this counter-cultural baggage, rejecting functionalist design symbols!
Katy Perry wore a Memphis-style dress to the VMA Awards
They don't pay attention to rules, they are bold and bold. The world may be getting worse, but fortunately we still have color, and Memphis, this avant-garde design style at first glance, maybe one day in the future will really come to our home.
Let's look forward to it fiercely
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