About Memphis Milano
Memphis Milano creative work ended in the late 1980s, but the Memphis company's entrepreneurial and productive work continues. The innovative Meta Memphis collection was introduced in 1989. For the first time, internationally renowned artists were involved in the design of furniture and objects instead of designers. Through conceptual reappraisals and unusual formal, material, and functional associations, the collection, which takes its name from the Greek word for transformation, Memphis Milano, rethinks the ways and archetypes of living that have been ingrained in their collective memory. The italicized handwriting of Alighiero Boetti on the Orogio wall clock's hours renders them unreadable. By combining incongruous materials and transforming them into surprising objects, Pier Paolo Calzolari deconstructs furniture. In bronze, Sandro Chia transforms a stuffed chair and a table into massive sculptures.