Memphis Milano
First Chair
Price € 1.560,00
The First Memphis is designed by Michele De Lucchi, one of the founding members of the group, and it is one of his most popular creations. In it, the Memphis poetics of reducing furnishings to their most essential geometric forms finds a brilliant execution, with a seat in which a circular tubular ring supports two small black spheres that function as armrests and a small rear medallion that acts as a backrest. The dynamic and futuristic look, even if apparently not very comfortable, has made it a great success today the protagonist of the permanent collections of many design museums around the world, including the Center Pompidou in Paris or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
W.59 x D.50 x H.90 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
Michele De Lucchi
Michele De Lucchi (1951-) is one of the most important contemporary Italian designers. His artistic trajectory emblematically summarizes the trajectory of Italian design in recent decades: born in Ferrara, during his university years he is one of the leaders of the student protest and participates in the front row in an occupation of the Milan Triennale. Standard bearer of radical design, he was strongly influenced by the figure of Ettore Sottsass, whom he will follow in his experimental experiences with Studio Alchimia and with the Memphis collective, of which he is one of the founding members. His period creations are characterized by bold colors and deconstructed shapes, as in the famous First chair. At the same time he approaches big industry, establishing a close collaboration with Olivetti. At the end of the 1980s he designed one of the most successful products in the history of Italian design, the Tolomeo lamp for Artemide (co-signed with Giancarlo Fassina), which led him to win his first Compasso d'Oro in 1989. It was just the beginning: three more followed in the decades to come, alongside collaborations with the most prestigious Italian brands such as Alessi, Alias, Molteni & C., Cassina, Riva 1920, De Castelli, Listone Giordano and many others. He also founded his own brand, Produzione Privata, dedicated to the limited series production of simple and precious furnishings. In parallel, his studio develops an appreciated international activity in the field of architecture, creating works such as the Unicredit Pavillion in Milan or the Bridge of Peace in Tbilisi.Read more