MEMPHIS — “RADICAL HOME” AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026 (A PREVIEW)

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Rho Fiera Milano – Hall 22 — Booth B30

Before Milan Design Week unfolds, this is an early glimpse into the projects shaping the season—where design, atmosphere, and everyday rituals intersect.

A Memphis home speaks through surfaces. Patterns, colors, and shapes layer the space with rhythm and intention, transforming everyday living into a visual experience. Within Radical Home, this vocabulary returns in a more compact form, allowing familiar icons to feel closer, slower, and newly inhabited.

Presented at the 64th edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano, the installation is shared with Gufram and Meritalia, forming a collective environment rooted in the legacy of Italian Radical Design. Rather than staging a retrospective, Radical Home reads as a lived-in setting—where historic ideas continue to shift through scale, context, and use.

At the center of Memphis’ presentation is a more compact edition of Tawaraya Ring, originally designed in 1981 by Masanori Umeda. Reintroduced at an updated scale, the piece offers a quieter yet no less expressive reading of one of the brand’s most emblematic works, gently acknowledging Umeda’s enduring influence following his passing in 2025.

Presented by Coulisse | INK

This dialogue between past and present continues through a selection of historic works from the Memphis catalogue, including First by Michele de Lucchi and a series of ceramic objects by Nathalie Du Pasquier. Together, these pieces reaffirm the movement’s unmistakable language—where bold pattern, color, and decoration are never ornamental alone, but carriers of vision and intent.

Within Radical Home, Memphis suggests that radical design can be lived with.
Here, the domestic space becomes a visual landscape—layered, expressive, and quietly confident—where form and decoration continue to shape identity through everyday use.