“By dint of walking in the areas of the uncertain (out of a certain diffidence) and by dint of conversing with metaphor and utopia (to understand a few more things) and by dint of getting out of the way (certainly out of innate calm), we now find ourselves with a certain experience, we have become good explorers. Perhaps we know how to navigate vast dangerous rivers, penetrate into jungles that no one has ever traveled.”

– Ettore Sottsass

Memphis in the 1980s was born with an idea of internationality and contamination, in the name it evoked Egypt but also the Blues, with the idea that it was necessary then as now to surprise and now even more than then the future needs memory.

The Palm collection, which spans various epochs, unites distant and close worlds, tries to open the various drawers of memory and put together images that evoke epics such as Cleopatra, Art Deco but also Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini.

The intent is thus to combine reminiscences related to the 1980s with American Deco seaside architecture in bringing to life a strongly contemporary object. Here then come to life iconic furnishings characterized by glossy lacquered wood tops, glass tops detailed in brass, and modular cone-shaped ceramic elements reminiscent of the stem of a palm tree.

Modular bookcases, consoles and smoking tables were then joined by a series of small tables at various heights with stained glass tops and lamps both lines consisting only of the ceramic modules and a white opaline glass sphere, creating a family of modular objects that can be customized in colors and heights.