Abstract Fresh - mini

€ ~~125,00~~

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BLACK LABEL Shopper SPECIAL Summer Bags 2009

These wonderful expressive unique bags are inspired by the furniture and design group `Memphis` from the 80`s-90`s. The concept of giving a creative design reaction on what is good design or what is bad taste.

This postive way of protesting by creating inspired EAH!. The designer herself, Eva Anna Hekking, strongly believes in positve protesting by creating humorious and outgoing designs. What is a real good design? seems to be returning point of discussion as we are in all overwhelmed with the mass market of luxury designs. Something to answer with a hilarious design and laugh about it.

In contrast the Memphis Group offered bright, colourful, shocking pieces. The colours they used contrasted the dark blacks and browns of European furniture. The word tasteful is not normally associated with products generated by the Memphis Group but they were certainly ground breaking at the time.

All this would seem to suggest that the Memphis Group was very superficial but that was far from the truth. The group intended to develop a new creative approach to design. Their concepts were in stark contrast to so called `Good Design`.

Memphis was the collective name of a group of architects and designers who were working in Milan – among them George Sowden, Michele de Lucchi, Marco Zanini, Aldo Cibic, Matheo Thun, Nathalie du Pasquier and Martine Bedin, who were strongly influenced by the radical work of their ‘mentor’, the older architect and designer, Ettore Sottsass (b. 1917), who had worked for Olivetti through the 1960s as well as experimenting on his own designs from the 1950s through to the 1970s. The group produced and exhibited, annually between1981 to 1988, collections of radical one-off designs – furniture and decorative art objects for the most part – which, with their unconventional shapes, brightly-coloured and patterned surfaces and apparent disregard for function, shocked the international design establishment and caused a widespread re-think about the rational, all-black, industry-oriented conventions of the ‘modern’ design of the day and the emergence of a new movement, often referred to as ‘Post-Modernism`.i

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