Memphis Milano
Arizona Rug
Price € 6.870,00
The Arizona rug is one of the most beautiful and characteristic creations of the Memphis Milano rug collection. It is designed in 1983 by Nathalie Du Pasquier, at the time one of the most prominent female members of the Memphis collective. More interested in art than design, Du Pasquier reproposes in this two-dimensional carpet the loud colored geometries that characterized the Memphis aesthetic, in a juxtaposition of apparently incongruous elements that is very lively and full of optimism. Hand-knotted, the Arizona rug is made entirely of Tibetan wool.
W.250 x D.180 cm
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Memphis was born in 1980 as an expression of radical design embodied in the creative genius of Ettore Sottsass, a pivotal figure around which young designers and architects from all over the world gather. A unique, ingenious and futuristic idea inspires this group of promises of contemporary design who set to work to create a collection of objects capable of embodying not only the highest expression of the radical movement, but its explicit crowning molded by the wise hands of Ettore Sottsass, Aldo Cibic, Matteo Thun, Marco Zanini, Martine Bedin, Michele De Lucchi, Nathalie Du Pasquier and George Sowden.Read more
Designed by
Nathalie Du Pasquier
Nathalie du Pasquier (1957-) is a French artist and designer who loves to work with pure, intricate geometries and intense contrasting colors, with creations of clear emotional impact and with a radical and post-modern style. A "Memphis style", in a nutshell, and not by chance: du Pasquier is in fact part of the young designers who had gathered in Milan around Ettore Sottsass and who had founded the movement since the early 1980s. Among them was also the Englishman George Sowden, who would become her husband and who would share many projects with her. Du Pasquier's creations refer to ethnic suggestions of various origins, but above all African, assimilated during a long period spent traveling the world in exotic locations during her youth in the 1970s. Initially also interested in furnishings and fabrics, his creations for Memphis gradually concentrated above all in research on carpets and fabrics, in a path towards two-dimensionality which would then culminate towards the end of the decade in an abandonment of design to devote himself solely to painting. This turning point coincides with a return home, in her native Bordeaux, where she will also be director of the local Musée des Arts Decoratifs. Over the years and the growth of successes, her art too will rediscover the three dimensions through the stratagem of the "cabins", special installations devised by her consisting of entirely decorated panels. In recent years, du Pasquier has also reconnected with design, for example by designing vases for Bitossi Ceramiche. Her motifs have been used for carpets and fabrics by brands such as La Chanche, Karimokou New Standard or ZigZagZurich.Read more