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| Looks like a Brain in a Box |
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| Memphis Design, Tukan Lamp |
There is this wonderful painting by Paul Klee (1979-1940) in which he set this African figure, a picturesque monument. The figure is in Africa widespread and symbolizes fertility and a guardian deity. Together with August Macke and Louis Moillet he toured North Africa in 1914, specifically the area around Tunis. On this trip originated colorful drawings as to the time they were barely visible. The Modern Art of the Twenties were in Germany by Wassily Kandinsky, Der Blaue Reiter, Gabriele Munter, The Bridge, in France, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, the main representative of Cubist Bonds on so-called primitive art.
Memphis Design was founded in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass during a meeting with young other designers. In the background played a song by Bob Dylan, "Stuck Inside of Mobile" (With the Memphis Blues Again). Memphis is also the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis and the Tennessee Rock'n'Roll à la Elvis Presley. This combination of the sublime with the trivial reflected this new design direction again.
Michele De Lucchi and Ettore Sottsass had the political right to make design accessible to the mass of consumers. In contrast to high-tech design, they postulated that anti-design. The designed objects, furniture, utensils were in shape and color in strong bonds of Pop Art. 1988 disbanded the group.
