A group exhibition in celebration of our debut partnership with the noteworthy design group, Memphis Milano. 

FEATURING ARTISTS

Adam rabinowitz | Alice Serres | Alyss Estay | Eduardo Sarabia | Maru Jensen | Thrush Holmes

april 8th - june 12 2022

“Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a

ritual whisper.”

Ettore Sottsass

THE OFFICE. Debuts Their Distribution Relationship with Memphis Milano (The Memphis Group), with a group exhibition featuring artists: Adam Rabinowitz, Alice Serras, Alyss Estay, Eduardo Sarabia, Maru Jensen and Thrush Holmes.

The Memphis-Milano brand originates in the cultural movement founded in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass and a group of designers linked to him by direct acquaintance: many of them were young people who frequented or were members of his studio, along with other internationally renowned designers and architects. 

The movement immediately became a worldwide phenomenon, destined to end on a creative level a few years later, in 1988, when the group officially broke up.
From the Memphis experience, the Meta Memphis project came about, giving rise to two collections, in 1989 and 1991, no longer put together by designers but by artists. Meta Memphis developed the philosophical reflection on living that had characterized Memphis, taking it to extremes, producing apparently useless hybrid objects that are both artworks and furnishing accessories. 

Memphis Milano became soon one of the most important names on the international scene of Art and Design, involving many young emerging artists, improving year by year a strong DNA and inimitable codes. Memphis was able to create since its beginning a strongly iconic language in which shapes, scales, materials, and colors are radically rethought. 

At the forefront of piecing this group exhibition together was the notion in combining THE OFFICE.’s artists and their artwork, in which curators Julian Wainer and Matthew Chevallard believed best encompassed and complimented the iconic Memphis Milano pieces. Embracing the Memphis Milano project, and in that, Meta Memphis, the main idea was to re-circle this concept of art and furniture merging as one. Being that Memphis Milano and The Memphis Group focused primarily on emerging artists, the exhibition felt written already. 

The group exhibition will feature a multitude of beautiful furniture pieces from Memphis Milano, including chairs, desks, lighting, and shelving pieces.