Wall Street Journal

Memphis-Style Design Returns to Home Décor

DESIGN PROFESSIONALS seemed to agree that the Memphis Group aesthetic wouldn’t last. They said the work from the Milan-based collective, with its 1980s kitsch and zany colors, had too many noisy ...
Wall Street Journal

Neo-Memphis Design: It Came From the ‘80s

OF ALL THE TRENDS that emerged during the 1980s—DayGlo, Aqua Net-encrusted hairdos, black spaghetti—Memphis furniture surely ranks among the least likely candidates for revival. The movement, founded ...
New York Magazine

What Is Memphis? (And How Can I Get My Hands on It?)

You might’ve heard murmurs about Memphis Milano. Maybe you read that it inspired Millennial Pink, have seen hints of its brash style on Pinterest, or you’ve noticed all your cool friends started ...
Architectural Digest

Memphis Design Takes the Pacific Northwest—at an Unlikely Location

Growing up in 1950s L.A. Peter Shire began his aesthetic education in a rather unconventional place: the department store. "I loved them," gushes the designer and founding member of Memphis, a radical ...