How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback Why the 1980s design phenomenon, named for a Bob Dylan song and an ancient Egyptian city, still appeals to every generation.

Memphis is back. Remember multicoloured sofas with spheres and pyramids for feet, bookcases with jutting shelves in motley laminates? The 1980s Italian postmodernist movement – which thumbed its ...

The group hired industry veteran Riccardo Pigati to manage its three envelope-pushing Italian furniture brands and said it's focused on modernizing the brands for new generations.

Memphis Milano and Gufram are two historical brands of radical Italian design, each producing icons that have become part of the collective imagination all over the world.

The iconic Memphis Milano company, founded by designer Ettore Sottsass, has been bought by Italian Radical Design, which also owns Gufram.

Born in Milan, the Memphis movement gave aesthetic and emotional value to design with references that border on the fantastic.

The Italian design group may have been ‘an exuberant cocktail of bad taste’, but its influence lives on ...

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.