Memphis Milano
Plaza Desk
Price € 37,750.00
The Plaza dressing table by Memphis Milano, designed by Michael Graves, is a manifesto of the postmodern language that made the Memphis experience iconic. The project combines bold geometries, overlapping volumes, and bold colors, transforming a functional piece of furniture into a truly narrative object. Plaza breaks with traditional minimalism and affirms a vision of design as a cultural, ironic, and symbolic expression. Each element—from the top to the mirror, to the decorative details—contributes to creating a dynamic and recognizable composition, in which function and aesthetics interact without hierarchies. The dressing table thus becomes a focal point of the space, capable of characterizing the environment with a strong personality. Plaza represents Graves and Memphis Milano's ability to transcend the boundaries between design, art, and architecture, giving life to an object that still retains a surprising expressive power today.
W.140 x D.54 x H.226 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
Michael Graves
Michael Graves (1934-2015) was an American architect and designer considered one of the most important signatures of Post-Modernism. Among the exponents of this current he was one of the most radical and extreme, with projects capable of often overemphasizing the more “pop” side and making extensive use of an often irreverent irony, as in the famous Team Disney Building in Burbank (1985-1990) on whose facade an imposing classical pediment is supported by a set of exceptional caryatids formed by the sculptures of the famous seven dwarfs that constitute one of the symbols of the studios. His early career was actually very far from these excesses: first a student and then a professor at Princeton University, Graves established himself at the end of the 1960s as one of the “New York Five”, five architects associated by critics for their ability to recover and reinvent the languages of Modernism typical of the 1930s. During the decade, however, Graves became increasingly interested in historical styles, reinterpreted in an eclectic manner and associated with completely new forms according to the typical language of that Post-Modernism that would perfectly embody the spirit of the 80s and would give him great international fame. Among his creations from this period, we remember the Portland City Hall (1982), considered the first post-modern office building in North America, and the Humana Building skyscraper in Louisville (1985). In the 90s, with the decline of post-modern fashion, his works would become more sparse; however, the Denver Public Library (1990-96), one of his most appreciated creations, belongs to that decade. Unlike many of his post-modern colleagues, Graves was then able to bring his style to the field of product design, establishing himself through some collaborations with important Italian companies: first the Memphis group, for which he created a series of exuberant furnishings, followed by a long collaboration with Alessi which culminated in the creation of an absolute best-seller such as the 9093 kettle. Michael Graves has also designed collections of watches and jewelry for Cleto Munari.Read more