But they were all taking cues from one radical Italian designer and architect: Ettore Sottsass. Sottsass’ short-lived collective, Memphis, was made up of about two dozen Italian creatives.

TriBeCa's Galerie56 and Yashar have teamed up for a new exhibit celebrating designers who rose to fame between the 1930s and ...

Last week, after an unexpected discovery, rare pieces of technology designed by Italian architect Ettore Sottsass were exhibited at Design. Space LA. Earlier in 2025, 500 unopened ENORME ...

When the radical design collective Memphis Group made its bombastic debut at Milan’s Salone del Mobile in September 1981, it delivered a brash retort to the ascendant minimalism of the era.

This may be the last series of furniture that Ettore Sottsass ever designed before his death in 2007 but he instilled it with the same burst of colour and energy that defined his prolific career.

It’s a philosophy well understood by the late Ettore Sottsass, the postmodernist designer and founder of the Memphis Design group, who was quoted in a 2014 monograph of his work as saying ...

Over 20 years before founding Memphis in 1980 – the subversive Italian design and architecture group that spearheaded a movement against the rigid rules of modernism – a young Ettore Sottsass was ...

An exhibition at Castello Ursino presents 111 previously unseen black and white photos The camera as an extension of the human gaze and visual memory: from his childhood onwards, Ettore Sottsass ...

But they were all taking cues from one radical Italian designer and architect: Ettore Sottsass. Sottsass’ short-lived collective, Memphis, was made up of about two dozen Italian creatives.