The limited colour palette and lack of depth offers ... it may not be worth lamenting the immense reach of Corporate Memphis, or the design possibilities we’ve been deprived of because of ...

Beanbags and the colour orange? If you do ... The brilliance of Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis design team he established in Milan in 1981, can be seen in the wacky Carlton room divider.

Now these long-lasting trends are gaining inspiration from fresh ideas working with colour, craft and pattern, liberating themselves in pretty much the same way that Memphis design movement first ...

“Memphis embraced all those things that modernism had banished: patterns and colours, kitsch and humour ... want is rarity,” says Cheshire-based design dealer Holly Johnson.

Anyone who followed design in the 1980s might feel ... on questioning the staid rules of modernism, the Memphis Group revelled in bright colours and exuberant designs. Cushion by Nathalie Du ...

anti-design movement of the 1980s. It’s more embodying a similar spirit – a lively spirit – in terms of the focus on boldness, colour and pattern.” The Memphis Group was definitely subversive.

"When you look at a piece of Memphis design, you see their unconventionality, the kaleidoscope of forms and patterns, the vibrant contrasting colours that really shouldn't work but really do." ...

Simply adding a geometric cushion in a bold colour, a spherical lamp ... print upholstery can bring in the iconic ‘80s style Memphis design home. A small tip – if you paint a semi-circle ...

It was a philosophy more than a design imperative. For the Memphis group, form did not need to follow function. The legend is that they’re called Memphis because the group listened to Bob Dylan ...

Sottsass may have left the group in 1985, with it disbandoning by 1988, but the Memphis legacy certainly lives on, culminating with an upcoming talk by his wife Barbara Radice at London's Design ...