MEMPHIS
Memphis style spread out in the 80's with its simple and rational illustrations that began to prevail during the XX century. Its main exponent was Ettore Sottsass, who founded the movement in 1981: "A table needs four legs but nobody says that these legs have to be identical", asserted Sottsass.
In a century in which modernity imposed a very strict style in the art of drawing, Sottsass's fornitures and objects inspired the designers to let them be guided by their own imagination changing the preset ideas of what was then known as "good taste".
The intrepid designers who became followers of this tendency broke the mold in facts of colours and structures: unexpected and totally indipendent from their functionality. A trend that didn't leave anyone indifferent: love or hate. That is what happens when someone breaks the rules and the. It tried, in a few words, to impress everybody, without exclusions.
This style was made of two tendency:
On the one hand, geometric figures: cube, sphere or cylinder; obviously used in an asimetric way, distorting the structure in order to create unsual objects.
And on the other hand, odd colours: yellow, blue, green, red, animalier prints like leopard-skin and zebra-striped...Gaudy and extreme colours, usefull to reach the main aim of this movement: wake up new emotions. No more connections with natural shades and black, the prevalent colours in the first art of drawing in the XX century: Bauhaus style focused on functionality and industrial handicraft.
In Memphis, instead, there is no boundary between art and industry, cheap and expensive; popular and cultured. The mix of the impossible is what everybody prefers.
So, it gives power to the imagination and offers unexpected shapes and colours just to obtain a new vision of common objects.
This style comes back to decorate our home with new illustrations and materials. That's what you have to do: run away from products built in sequence and from the nordic influence. Decorate with odd objects to leave the mark of this nonconformist tendency in every corner of the house. Original wallpapers, a mix between classic and contemporary items, wood with mirror and iron, lively colours, cylinders and cubes, objects with odd structures and functionalities...everything's ok!
An example of Memphis' Influence in interior design nowadays is the dressing room of Miriam Alía Mateo in exposition in Casa Decor 2016: surfaces decorated with huge geometric shapes, overstated colours, unexpected objects...
Source: http://casadecor.es/, http://www.houzz.es, http://marzua.blogspot.com.es