Postmodern Memphis design-1980-present day

In the 1980s a group of designers were so bored

with the plain modernist architecture that they
decided to inject some colour and fun into there
range of furniture
Postmodern Memphis design-1980-present day

They became known as the Memphis

design group
Postmodern Memphis design-
1980-present day

Memphis designs were

Very colourful
Sometimes used patterns
Did not always function but looked good
Postmodern Memphis design-1980-present day
Postmodern Memphis design-1980-present day
Postmodern Memphis design-1980-present day
The memphis group did not last long but there
ideas became known as postmodernism
SEJARAH DESAIN
DESIGN HISTORY
PERTEMUAN 1 - PENDAHULUAN

Dosen
Geggy Gamal S., S.Des, M.Des
Apa itu SENI?
What is ART?
Apa itu DESAIN?
What is DESIGN?

Bidang apa saja yang terdiri dari DESAIN?

What is the part of the DESIGN?
Apa itu DESAIN INDUSTRI?
What is INDUSTRIAL DESIGN?
Bidang apa saja yang terdiri dari DESAIN INDUSTRI?
What is the part of the INDUSTRIAL DESIGN?

Bidang apa yang anda suka dari bagian D.I?

Which part do you like from I.D?
Design history timeline
Key Movements & Styles

1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 Present

Art and Craft movement (1850 - 1914)

Aesthetic movement (1870 - 1900)
Japonisme(1872 - 1941)
Art nouveau (1880 - 1910)
Modernism(1880 - 1940)
Beaux-Arts (1885 - 1920)
Jugendstil (1890 - 1910)
Mission style (1890 - 1920)
Secession (1897 - 1920)
Wiener Werkstatte (1903 - 1932)
Deutsche Werkbund (1907 - 1934)
Futurism (1909 - 1944)
Art deco (1910 - 1939)
Czech Cubism (1911 - 1915)
Vorticism (1912 - 1915)
Dadaism (1916 - 1923)
De Stijl (1917 - 1931)
Bauhaus (1919 - 1933)
Moderne (1920 - 1940)
Constructivism (1921 - 1932)
Surrealism (1924 - 1930)
Rationalism (1926 - 1945)
Streamlining (1930 - 1950) Organic Design (1990 - Present)
Organic Design (1930 - 1960)
International Style (1933 - 1980)
Biomorphism (1935 - 1955)
Scandinavian Modern (1936 - Present)
Design history timeline
Key Movements & Styles

1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 Present

Contemporary style (1945 - 1960)

Swiss School (1950 - 1970)

Pop Art (1958 - 1972)

Space Age (1960 - 1969)

Op Art (1965 - 1973)

Antidesign (1966 - 1980)

Minimalism (1967 - 1978)

High-Tech (1972 - 1985)

Postindustrialism (1978 - 1984)

Postmodernism (1978 - Present)

California new wave (1979 - Present)

Memphis (1981 - 1988)

Decontructivism (1988 - Present)

Memphis

A Design style
Modern furniture
Reaction against modernism
The Memphis Design Movement was a group of designers based in
ITALY that came together to react against the modernist movement.
Modernism was a design movement which believed LESS is MORE
and the FORM (shape) of a product should FOLLOW its FUNCTION.
Not the opposite where the function dictates the shape.
Memphis for DESIGN
They were inspired by the enormous social and cultural changes in
the 1960s and 1970s.
They embraced consumerism and
YOUTH CULTURE
Memphis IS Design
They used geometric shapes to
enhance everyday products.
Memphis IS Design
They used patterns, colours, and
materials and manufacturing
techniques in new ways.
Memphis IS Design
They thought LESS is a BORE.
BORING
They created post modernism
Memphis IS Design
They used POP ART to decorate
products

A style of art which seeks its

inspiration from commercial art
and items of mass culture (such as
comic strips, popular foods and
brand name packaging).
Memphis IS Design
They used POP ART to decorate
products
Memphis IS Design
Memphis designers believed:

FORM
SWALLOWS
FUNCTION
What am I?
Memphis IS Design
Memphis has had an enduring effect on products today.
ALESSI manufacturers of kitchen utensils has embraced MEMPHIS
ways of thinking in the design of its products
Juicy Saliff

By
Phillipe Starck
Memphis IS Design
Memphis rejected the idea of
good taste and used ordinary
materials to make products
INTERESTING
Memphis IS Design
Memphis rejected the idea of
good taste and used ordinary
materials to make products
INTERESTING
Memphis IS Design
Memphis rejected the idea of
good taste and used ordinary
materials to make products
INTERESTING
Memphis IS Design
Memphis rejected the idea of
good taste and used ordinary
materials to make products
INTERESTING
Memphis
This presentation was produced by
Mr Steve Smith
Bettws High School Newport

As part of a GTCW network project

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Memphis
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Memphis
In 1980 the Memphis group led by Ettore Sottsass rejected
the principle of functional design and the rules of `good
taste` which was the cornerstone of the Modernism. They
regarded design as being fashion, with outrageous styles
appearing for a season then disappearing just as quickly.

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Memphis
Carlton
Sideboard. Part cartoon
Material: figure, part
Covered in totem pole
Plastic and part
Laminate. bookcase, the
Carlton
The Carlton embodies
Sideboard Ettore
presents Sottsass
itself loudly commitment
as a to the joint
symbolic stimuli of
monument contemporary
to all things pop culture
Memphis. and ancient
cultures.
Carlton 1981 Ettore Sottsass
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Memphis

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 Lamp
Material:
Memphis
The
`Bacterio`
Plastic
Laminate &
laminate Metal
pattern used
on the base
was first
developed by
Ettore `Tahti`
Sottsass in typifies the
the late Disney-like
1970s and naivety and
was used in impudence
experimental associated
furniture with so many
developed by Memphis
Studio products.
Alchymia.

Tahiti 1981 Ettore Sottsass

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Memphis

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Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass was born in Austria in 1917.
In 1935 he went to Turin to study
architecture and later became a freelance
architect and designer, and has since worked
for companies such as Olivetti and more
recently Alessi.
In 1981 Sottsass and a group of like minded
designers and architects formed the
Memphis group which experimented with
design and reacted against the modernist
principle that `form should follow function`.
The group explored new ways of using
materials and combining different historical,
cultural and artistic influences in their work.

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Memphis
Fibreglass
Lamp
Martine
Bedin also
worked
The Glossy with the
Art Deco avante-
look of the garde
base is design
offset by group
the lamps Superstudio
push along in Florence
playfulness before
and bare- joining
bulbed Studio
simplicity. Alchymia.

Super 1981 Martine Bedin

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 Material:
Memphis
Lamp
Metal

In contrast to
the idea that
`Good
Design`
should be This use of
seamless and colour
homogeneous accentuates
each the fact it is
geometric made up
shape used in from an
the design of assortment
the lamp is of
given a colour component
of its own. parts.

Treetops 1981 Ettore Sottsass

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Memphis

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 Material:
Sofa Wood, Plastic
Memphis Laminate,
Metal &
Fabric

This squat
Lido sofa
mixes
different
historical
styles.

Lido 1982 Michelle De Lucchi

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Memphis

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 Cabinet
Material:
Memphis
Despite its
classical
Lacqured
and
lines, the Silkscreen
DAntibes Wood.
cabinet
appears
playful and
fragile
rather than
functional,
thanks to
the The cabinet
exaggerated is painted in
elongation bright
of its spindly nursery
legs. colours.

DAntibes 1981 George Sowden

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Memphis

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Memphis

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 Lamp Material:
Memphis Enamelled
Metal.

Sinerpica 1979 Michele De Lucchi

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 Material:
Chair Metal &
Memphis
A simple
Lacquered
Wood.
stool with
one steel
tube added
as a
backrest,
the design
of the `first`
chair is The `First`
ideally has proved
suited to to be one of
mass Memphis
production. best selling
Lightweight furniture
but stable. pieces.

First 1993 Michele De Lucchi

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 Material:
Chair Metal, Plastic
Memphis Laminate
and Pink
Chintz.
Michelle De
Lucchi
worked with
Studio
Alchymia
The Riviera and Sottsass
chair is a Associati in
deliberate Milan before
statement becoming
of `bad one of the
taste`. most active
and versatile
members of
Memphis.
Riviera 1981 Michelle De Lucchi
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 Table Material:
Memphis Metal &
Terrazzo.
The Kyoto
elegant
simplicity is
offset by the
use of
brightly
coloured
Terrazzo.
This material
is not usually
associated
with
domestic
furniture.

Kyoto 1983 Shiro Kuramata

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Memphis

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 Lamp Material:

Memphis Plastic
Laminate &
Neon.

Designed
for Studio
Alcymia.

Svincolo 1979 Ettore Sottsass

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 Lamp
Material:
Memphis Painted Metal

Ashoka 1981 Ettore Sottsass

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 Material:
Cupboard
Memphis Plastic
Laminate,
Wood.

The
Casablanca
showcases Sottsass
Sottsass use wanted to
of decorated bring
plastic laminates out
laminates, of the
which he kitchen,
embraced as bathroom
`a material and playroom
with no into the
culture`. formal rooms
of the house.

Casablanca 1981 Ettore Sottsass

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 Material: Plastic
Sideboard Laminate,
Memphis Natural Briar &
Metal
The Beverly
Sideboard
is one of
Sottsass
more
radical
designs. This piece is
The use of an example of
plastic Memphis
laminate practice of
contrasts using the rare
with the and the
rare natural commonplace
briar wood. together.

Beverly Sideboard 1981 Ettore Sottsass

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 Lamp Material:

Memphis Metal

This is
enhanced
by the
cable
running
through
The form of each of
this lamp the candy
gives the strip
impression tubes.
of an
advancing
sea snake.

Oceanic 1981 Michele De Lucchi

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 Cabinet Material:

Memphis Wood, Metal

& Plastic
Laminate

Ginza 1982 Masanori Umeda

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Memphis

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 Teapot Material:
Memphis Ceramic

Cuculus Canorus 1982 Matteo Thun

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 Table
This table Material:
Memphis
has been Plastic
Laminate,
described as
an obedient Lacquered
dog waiting Wood &
patiently Metal.
besides its
masters
chair or
alternativel
y a waiter
carrying a
tray high
above his
head
through a
crowded
bar.
Kristall 1981 Michele De Lucchi
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 Vase Material:
Memphis Blown Glass

Alcor 1983 Ettore Sottsass

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 Fruit Dish
Material:
Memphis
Working in
Glass

glass and
ceramics The unusual
Ettore combination
Sottsass of blown
enjoyed glass and
even greater worked
freedom shapes
from the demonstrate
modernist s Sottsass
principle of desire to
form create new
following and
function. expressive
products.

Sol Ettore Sottsass

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Memphis

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 Ashtray Material:
Memphis Ceramic

Matteo
Thuns
designs are
complex
sculptures
whose
function is
secondary
to their
appearance

Api 1981 Matteo Thun

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 Vase
Material:
Memphis Ceramic

Carrot Vase 1985 Nathalie Pasquier

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 Vase Material:
Memphis Ceramic

Cucumber 1985 Martine Bedin

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Memphis

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 Bowl Material:
Memphis Lacquered
Wood

Caravanserraglio 1979 Ettore Sottsass

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Memphis

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 Vase Material -
Memphis Porcelain

Although often
outrageous in
appearance
some of the
pieces like
`Titicaa`
demonstrated
extraordinary
craftsmanship.

Titicaa 1982 Matteo Thun

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Memphis

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 Pepper / Salt Material:
Memphis
Shaker Ceramic

Ontario Erie Superior Michigan 1982 Matteo Thun

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 Material:
Wooden
Plastic
Memphis
Cabinet with
Shutter
Laminate &
Wood.

Shutter
finished in
Lacquer

Tindouf 1979 Paola Navone

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 Table Material:

Memphis Aluminium
& Laminate
Base

Tavolino Primavera 1980 Ettore Sottsass

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 Material:
Small Lamp
Plastic
Memphis Laminate &
Metal

Gerald
Taylor was
born in
Glasgow
and moved
to Milan in
1982 after
studying at
the Royal
Academy.

Piccadilly 1982 Gerald Taylor

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Memphis

Tawaraya ring 1981 Masanori Umeda

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Memphis
This presentation was produced by
Mr Steve Smith
Bettws High School Newport

As part of a GTCW network project

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