The Memphis Collective
Memphis was a Milan-based collective of young furniture and product designers led by the veteran Ettore Sottsass. After its 1981 debut, Memphis dominated the early 1980s design scene with its post-modernist style.This really original porcelain fruitbowl’s has been designed by Matteo Thun for Memphis. Matteo was born in 1952 in bolzano/alto adige, he studied under oskar kokoschka at the salzburg academy. in 1975 he was awarded his phd in architecture at the university of Florence, Italy. In collaboration with Ettore Sottsass he grounded the Sottsass Associati and the Memphis design group in 1981.
