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News • News • 26 Feb 2021
Ya Space celebrates the vibrant colours and geometries of the Memphis Group
In Hangzhou, China, Ya Space is a furniture exhibition space by Li Wenqiang/PIG Design featuring Memphis furniture as the main exhibit. The project name refers to the nickname of Memphis City in China (‘Cliff City – or ‘Ya’ in the Chinese language) but also conveys the surprising feeling and unexpected sensory experience Memphis furniture brings out in people.
Shao Feng
The Memphis Group is an Italian design and architecture group founded by Ettore Sottsass in the 1980s. As a young group of international designers, the Memphis Group advocated unrestricted creative exploration and has become the synonym of ‘alternative classical style’ in the modern design field. Its furniture features peculiar forms... More
Project • By S+S studio (Sundukovy Sisters) • Bars
Cosmos café
Complex Task
S+S interior design and architecture studio faced a challenge to create a stylistically dynamic and modern design for a children’s café Cosmos located at the temple of Moscow Soviet trade and exhibition – VDNKH Cosmos pavilion. This tremendous building is a proper cultural heritage with marble floors and pompous groin vault ceilings, which is genuinely a great space for inspiration and creativity but can hardly fit a children’s place concept.
Matching Solution
To avoid a classical perception and realization of cosmic space theme, in their notable manner, S+S team applied some principles and patterns of a postmodern archaic Memphis Group’s style, smartly contrasting its vibrant colours a... More
Project • By IOSA GHINI ASSOCIATI SRL • Exhibitions
Triennale di Milano, Exhibition Massimo Iosa Ghini: exposition images
The exhibition traces the 30-year career, from 80’s until now, of one of the most eclectic personality of architecture and international design, through a rich selection of drawings, interior design and architecture projects, objects, illustrations, videos.
From April 9 to May 1 2013, the Triennale di Milano hosts an exhibition dedicate to MASSIMO IOSA GHINI, (Bologna, 1959), one of the most eclectic personality of the architecture and international design.
The exhibition, curated by Iosa Ghini Associati, in partnership with Fiandre Architectural Surfaces, Iris Ceramica, Rossato, traces the 30-year of Iosa Ghini career, from the 80s until now, through a wide selection of interior design and architecture projects, design objects, illu... More