Alessi, a kitchen utensil company grounded in Italy. The company saw many high designs of a variety of ordinary objects and tools and was common stylised in the post-modern mode. Some
memorable products were the 'designer kettles', 'designer toothbrushes', 'designer graters' and so no all are Alessi products.
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Philippe Starck is a French product designer and well known in the New Design style. His work varies from interior design to mass produced consumer goods like chairs and toothbrushes. His technique often included stylised, organic and streamlined products and furnishings to get them ready for mass production, he revamped a variety of household i
tems, introducing them into high design.
http://besttopdesign.com/interior/interior-design-of-hotel-fasano-rio-de-janeiro-by-philippe-starck-in-rio-de-janeiro/
The Memphis Group was an Italian group of designers and architects in the 1980's that challenged the conventional attitudes towards textures, colours, patterns and shapes in producing many fabrics, furniture, metal, ceramics and glass objects. In direct contrast to the so called 'Good Design' of the time and drew inspiration from the Art Deco and Pop Art movements, appropriating from futuristic themes and 50's Kitsch styles. Resulting in colourful, bright and shocking pieces in this group that the 'mentor' Ettore Sottsass influenced by his radical work, he dubbed the group as the 'New International Style'. The unconventional shapes, disregard of function, bright colours and radical textures shocked the art community and challenged the 'modern' design of the day and furthermore developed what we call Post Modernism.
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http://isiria.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/memphis-1.jpg
This group has been described as
'vibrant, essentric and ornamental' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group
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