MEMPHIS style blue furniture, dresser & high chest with 4 drawers, ca 1980

Blue Klein MEMPHIS style dresser & high chest with 4 drawers, circa 1980/90.

Good overall condition, with some dents to the backs of the side panels (see photo).

The Memphis Group is a revolutionary design and architecture movement. Founded in Milan by Ettore Sottsass in 1980, its subsequent members have included Michele De Lucchi, Matteo Thun, Marco Zanini, Aldo Cibic, Andrea Branzi, Shiro Kuramata, Michael Graves, Peter Shire, Javier Mariscal, Barbara Radice, Martine Bedin, George J. Sowden, Masanori Umeda and Nathalie du Pasquier. Memphis became more open to fashion and the international art movements of the day, such as anti-design (pop art came earlier). Introducing a wide range of colours, patterns, the use of laminate in furniture and, more generally, new forms in furniture, lighting, table elements and decorations. The group disbanded in 1988...