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Impossiballs Forma Cava Sculpture #1

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Impossiballs Forma Cava Sculpture #1 - Main view

An archetypal shape tapering toward the top and extensively decorated with manually carved grooves characterizes this superb wooden sculpture. The technique behind its intriguing texture is indeed named "Follow The Grain" or FTG, while the hollow interior with seemingly no outlet is a distinctive trademark of the whole Impossiballs Collection.

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MaterialWoodDimensions (cm)W 18 x D 18 x H 30Product referenceNICOVI-174Tearsheet

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Discovering the Artisan

Memphis

Memphis

Lombardia, Italy | Designer

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It’s the evening of December 11, 1980. A group of young designers and architects has gathered in Ettore Sottsass’s living room. The record Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again by Bob Dylan plays over and over again: thus Memphis was born. A few days later, a revolutionary collection of design objects was discussed and outlined, one which was to take shape over a few months in the drawings of Ettore Sottsass, Aldo Cibic, Matteo Thun, Marco Zanini, Martine Bedin, Michele De Lucchi, Nathalie Du Pasquier, and George Sowden.

The company is now managed by Alberto Bianchi Albrici, who purchased it in 1996 from Ernesto Gismondi, owner of Artemide, after ten years as managing director. The projects designed by the Memphis group between 1981 and 1988 are still produced today in unlimited series, in the belief that design should be understood as a means of communication and not as an expression of elitist art.

As a cultural movement, Memphis continues to influence the imagination of the general public, from fashion to the film and television industry. The liberating spirit of Memphis is still a source of inspiration for young designers today: reflections on the concept of design and furnishing, on their limits and aesthetic possibilities, on their social and communicative function and on the creative and productive aspect, as well as on the economic models underpinning them, are now more relevant than ever.

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