Architectural Digest

Memphis Design Takes the Pacific Northwest—at an Unlikely Location

Growing up in 1950s L.A. Peter Shire began his aesthetic education in a rather unconventional place: the department store. "I loved them," gushes the designer and founding member of Memphis, a radical ...
Fast Company

Target, Fila, and Wayfair can’t get enough of this radical design movement

The ’80s-era design collective Memphis Group believed that designers shouldn’t be tools of industry. Today, the group’s aesthetic has been co-opted by major companies, from Target to Puma. The ...
Commercial Appeal

Memphis designer Carmeon Hamilton competing on 'Design Star: Next Gen'

Movie star. Pop star. Design star? Last year, Architectural Digest magazine identified Memphis interior designer Carmeon Hamilton as one of "9 Rising Stars Taking the Design World by Storm." This week ...
The Globe and Mail

Loud, over-the-top and colourful: Memphis, the Italian postmodernist design movement, is back

Memphis is back. Remember multicoloured sofas with spheres and pyramids for feet, bookcases with jutting shelves in motley laminates? The 1980s Italian postmodernist movement – which thumbed its nose ...
Wall Street Journal

Neo-Memphis Design: It Came From the ‘80s

OF ALL THE TRENDS that emerged during the 1980s—DayGlo, Aqua Net-encrusted hairdos, black spaghetti—Memphis furniture surely ranks among the least likely candidates for revival. The movement, founded ...