If Coco Chanel's famous adage about the eternal renewal of fashion is constantly verified, interior decoration also follows this inclination to draw inspiration from the past to reinvent itself. Nostalgic, the human takes the best of previous decades to create the trends of tomorrow.
With the comeback of second hand and vintage pieces, it is the turn of the 80s, and its pure audacity design, to make its entry into our interiors.
Extravagance at the service of design
The 80s were a real turning point, both artistic and cultural as well as technological. A wind of freedom is blowing, in Europe as in the United States, and is leaving its mark on the history of design through the emergence of great designers.
Philippe Starck, Pierre Sala and Ettore Sottsass; so many big names from the end of the 20th century who will forge the design identity of this teeming decade by bringing a certain cheerfulness to their creations, through unstructured shapes, saturated colors and innovative materials.
The rise of the Memphis style
Too wise and too uniform, the Italian design of his time was not to the taste of Ettore Sottsass who dreamed of a stylistic revolution to put an end to bourgeois interiors in cream tones, elegant and chic, but too sober in his eyes.
In 1981, he founded the group that would launch the Memphis movement, in Milan, surrounded by designers and architects who shared the same artistic vision as him: interiors in bright colors and furniture with unstructured and asymmetrical lines.
A strong identity
