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Casablanca - Memphis Milano
€17,460.00
VAT included
4 - 5 weeks approx.
Casablanca is a shelf designed by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano, in 1981. The Casablanca wardrobe is an emblematic piece of the Memphis movement. With its sculptural design, vibrant colors and geometric shapes, this piece of furniture defies the norms of conventional furniture.
Its angled sides and expressive silhouette make this cabinet not only a functional object, but a work of art that transforms any space. Casablanca is reminiscent of a contemporary totem, a mythological figure brought into the present through color, geometry and irony. Made of decorative plastic laminate – an iconic material in Memphis' creations – the wardrobe combines vibrant prints with a formal language that is pure Sottsass: emotional, provocative, almost ritualistic.
Casablanca shelf, designed by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano in 1981.
This bookshelf - sideboard is part of the first Memphis collection. The Casablanca cabinet is a consciously extravagant piece of postmodern design of this era. It was designed to combine storage and display, but also as a room divider. Its saturated color, its simple shapes like building blocks, are theatrically positioned. Another detail present is its construction, it is its laminate in plastic with internal shelves, its strange wing-like shape went against the modernist belief that form must follow function, heralding a new aesthetic that challenged the forms and functional values of traditional modernism. Memphis adopted color, ornament, and novel ways to restore the sense of freedom and humanity that modern design had lost. Its inspiration comes from everyday products from the 50s.
Materials: laminated wood in colors.
Measurement: width 151 x depth 39 x height 221 cm.
This product carries its certificate of authenticity.
MEM021
Data sheet
- Designer:
- Ettore Sottsass
- Year:
- 1981
- Country of origin:
- Italy
- Measurements in cm:
- Width 151 x Depth 39 x Height 221
- Suitable for outdoor use:
- No
