Memphis SRL Armchairs

The solemnity and essentiality of Palace by George J. Sowden make this chair a true icon of the silent transformation of Memphis. Palace reinterprets the rationalist forms of design ...

A classic & very early George Nakashima design, the spindle back straight chair. This 1940's example is made of solid Birch with signature saddle seat. Probably refinished at some po...

The Gaulinetta is an evolution of the Gaulino chair. In words of Oscar Tusquets: in homage to Enzo Mari, who called his chair Tonietta, a derivative of Thonet, I’ve called this chair...

Elegant pair of 1950's Italian armchairs. The armchairs have beautiful geometric shapes that are very sharp and clean. Its armrests are triangular in shape with outward facing tip. T...

With First, Michele De Lucchi seems to pay homage to Alexander Calder in the lightness and mobility of the forms. The seat was designed to be easily assembled and replicated: manufac...

5 Memphis Milano style chairs, newly upholstered with a beautiful blue-green color fabric. Black coated metal frame and wooden back.

This armchair in the style of Aldo Morbelli was made in Italy in the 1950s. The armchair with armrests has a green faux leather upholstery and iron legs with brass finials. The piece...

Peter Shire bone chair designed and made in the Studio of Peter Shire, 1983. Only two of these chairs were ever made. The other reside in a private collection in Germany. Very large ...

Memphis Milano style chairs by Belgo Chrom from the 1980s. Also a beautiful deskchair The green fabric is Alcantra, the backside is decorat...

Baughman was inspired by the courageous young avant-garde designers known as the Memphis Group that burst on to the works stage in 1981 with a total disregard for the traditions and design tenants of restrained, idealized Modernism, Baughman designed a small collection of 11 colorful, post-modern pieces and convinced Coggin to put the collection into production by 1984. The unexpected designs made a splash upon their debut, with critics praising Baughman’s graceful and carefully considered take on the wild Italian ‘new design.’ The wider American audience and Coggin’s well-to-do yet conservative clientele did not take to Baughman’s experiment in exercising complete creative control. ''Only galleries bought it,'' Baughman told the NYT in the months after the collection’s release. Pieces from the 1984 Prisma collection are extremely difficult to come by. Literature: Oscar Fitzgerald, American furniture: 1650 to the Present , 2017. P 517; CH 19 Postmodern and AvantGarde Furniture...

La poltrona Bel Air di Peter Shire, prodotta da Memphis Milano è un pezzo di design unico che rappresenta l'audacia e l'originalità del movimento Memphis. Questo esemplare è stato p...

1980ies Memphis Milano Palace chair in colored lacquered wood designed by George Sowden, 1983. George Sowden studied architecture at Glouc...