Unleashed on the world at the 1981 Milan Furniture Fair, Memphis—an allusion to Bob Dylan’s “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again,” the ancient capital of Egypt, and the ...

Here, his famous Bel Air chair and the Peninsula table join a batch of 18 Memphis pieces on display alongside more affordable, Memphis-inspired designs from brands like Areaware, Paper Chase Press ...

The interiors of the 1980s may not align with contemporary tastes, but there's one popular design trend of the era that's ...

Memphis-Inspired Picks Spongeware Chair, Dream Collective ($1,800) Part Two Bookends, Waka Waka ($165) Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Arnold Circus Stool, Martino Gamper (£59) ...

An intersection designed by Vignesh Swaminathan, aka “Mr. Barricade”; a ceramic chair by Simone Bodmer-Turner; a multi-color chair by Ellen Van Dusen for Dims; the design journal Deem, and a ...

When I ask about the debut collection’s 1981 catalogue that read, “We are all sure that Memphis furniture will soon go out of style,” Shire says his mentor and Memphis Design Group comember ...

New furniture directly inspired by those outrageous postmodern vibes. An entire show during New York’s Design Week that seemed to be ripped from a 1986 copy of Vogue.

The '80s-era design collective Memphis Group believed that designers shouldn't be tools of industry. Today, the group's aesthetic has been co-opted by major companies, from Target to Puma.

Sottsass was also the co-founder of the radical 1980s design group Memphis—a collective inspired by the Bob Dylan song “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”—which included ...