Growing up in 1950s L.A. Peter Shire began his aesthetic education in a rather unconventional place: the department store. "I loved them," gushes the designer and founding member of Memphis, a radical ...

MILAN – Italian Radical Design group, which owns design forward-brands like Gufram, Memphis and Meritalia, has appointed a chief executive officer to oversee the management of the key flagship firms.

Design Indaba 2013: Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort curated an exhibition drawing parallels between the Italian Memphis movement of the 1980s and contemporary South African design at Design Indaba ...

Although you know it when you see it, it’s hard to accurately describe Memphis design without resorting to specific 1980s pop cultural references. It’s Pee-Wee’s Playhouse meets Miami Vice. It’s Saved ...

OF ALL THE TRENDS that emerged during the 1980s—DayGlo, Aqua Net-encrusted hairdos, black spaghetti—Memphis furniture surely ranks among the least likely candidates for revival. The movement, founded ...

The late Ettore Sottsass, who in the 1980s joined the pop-culture firmament as the founder of the Memphis design group, once quipped that being the subject of a retrospective was “a bit macabre… a ...

DESIGN PROFESSIONALS seemed to agree that the Memphis Group aesthetic wouldn’t last. They said the work from the Milan-based collective, with its 1980s kitsch and zany colors, had too many noisy ...