"Memphis"

T Mag Party @ Salone Milan 2015

T Mag Party @ Salone Milan 2015

On the evening before the Salone officially opened, T Magazine ( part of the New York Times ) once again threw a soiree to toast the launch of this year’s edition of Salone Internazionale del Mobile — and of T’s own Spring Design issue — with a festive outdoor cocktail party at the beautiful Villa Necchi Campiglio.

Sottssas – Memphis to Milan @ Salone Milan 2014

Sottssas – Memphis to Milan @ Salone Milan 2014

The Memphis collections were playful and polymorphic, and the 2014 Gallery exhibition at the Stelline Refactory, was a tribute to Memphis and its designers

Yet above all it celebrated the spirit ambiguous , complexity and contradictory ideas which make these objects the timeless icons in an era marked by narcissism and the culture of the ephemeral.