Memphis Style Blue Furniture, Dresser & High Chest Of 4 Drawers, Ca 1980

Klein blue furniture in MEMPHIS style, dresser & high chest of drawers with 4 drawers, ca 1980/90.
Good general condition, note some dents on the rear parts of the side panels (see photo).

The Memphis Group is a revolutionary design and architecture movement. Founded in Milan by Ettore Sottsass in 1980, its members later included Michele De Lucchi, Matteo Thun, Marco Zanini, Aldo Cibic, Andrea Branzi, Shiro Kuramata, Michael Graves, Peter Shire, Javier Mariscal, Barbara Radice, Martine Bedin, George J. Sowden, Masanori Umeda and Nathalie du Pasquier. Memphis is more open to fashion and international art movements of the moment such as anti-design (pop art came earlier). Introducing a wide range of colours, patterns, the use of laminate in furniture and, more generally, new shapes in furniture, furniture, lighting, table elements and decorations. The group dissolved in 1988...