Some of the Memphis Group’s most rollicking and vigorous moments came in
the form of joyous‚ rainbow-drenched everyday items that tilted the design
plane just enough for charmless‚ monochromatic mainstays to lose to their
balance. A high-impact‚ avant-garde spirit‚ though wild and unexpected‚
Memphis was not a conga line through quirk and gimmick. Masters such
as Ettore Sottsass‚ Michele de Lucchi and Andrea Branzi were sincere
about igniting a new creative approach. Decades later‚ the prolific Branzi
steeps his gloriously architectural thought process in the luscious Limoges
world of Bernardaud. The Foglia teapot is evocative of the green tea leaf‚
tracing the vein up the white vessel—a milky allusion to the drink’s better
half. A modern symbiosis of ceremony and design in fine porcelain‚ this one
object distills heart-pounding verve into sculptural formation. To purchase‚
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