Memphis, Texas
Image: Gavin Morrison “Memphis, Texas” Modern Luxury, Dallas, March, 2018.
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Design history is written in the present, where the shifting sands of taste and fashion lead to the reappraisal of the near and distant past. Recently, the riotous exuberance and cultural kleptomania of Postmodernism has undergone something of a revival. In the past year, the work of the Italian founder of the design group Memphis, Ettore Sottsass has been the subject of significant exhibitions at the Met in New York and at La Triennale di Milano, Italy.