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Sleek, happy-looking glass & lacquered steel rolling bar & serving cart by the most iconic Spanish designer of the 1980's --- Javier Mariscal!! He designed the mascot/logo Gobi for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, including the colorful, Miro-like Olympic logo. His nightclubs, hotels, restaurants & other furniture objects always possessed a great sense of verve & wit --- this HILTON cart looks as though it could get a ticket for speeding even while it is standing still!!! Javier was born in Valencia in 1950. In 1971 he moved to Barcelona to study Graphic Design at the acclaimed Elisava School. While there, he formed alliances with counter-culture radical comic book writers and illustrators of the time, such as Mique Beltrán, Daniel Torres and Sento. Together they set up "El Rollo Enmascarado", a group specialized in underground subversive comics. In the 1980s, he worked as interior designer of nightclubs, collaborated with Memphis and (as stated) created Cobi, the mascot for the 1992 Olympic...

HOLLYWOOD!!!! The Mitzi sofa — 1981, for Poltronova — part of the rich production of the Austrian master Hans Hollein, highlights a rigorous design while s...

Haus Lange Lampe chandelier (1991). Franz West (Austria) 1947-2012. Cast bronze suspension lamp / natural bronze patina. Dimensions: H 152 x W 180 cm. This raw, cast bronze ob...

Gherpe table or floor mood lamp (1968). Superstudio (Italy) / Poltronova. Animal-like & changeable in shape, thanks to its "scales" that revolve around a central pivot / laser-cut...

Light chandelier (1991). Franz West (Austria) 1947-2012. Welded iron chain suspension lamp / blackish-gray patina. Franz West in a way reinterpre...

The ultimate Sottsass table light!! Anthropomorphic (looks like a parrot) as the head (w/ lamp) swivels up and down. Designed for the inaugural 1981 MEMPHIS...

No one but Ettore Sottsass could've designed such an elegant mirror -- an homage to his love of the human psyche, "reflected" in its inner & outer beauty. Quasi-deco in manner, ye...

Safari Imperial sofa, design by Archizoom Associati The famed, ultimate Pop Art sectional pod sofa!! In all the 20th C design history books!! The Safar...

Nara square table, (1983). Shiro Kuramata (Japan) / Memphis Milano. Square end or coffee table in metal and colored-glass-infused "Star Piece" terrazzo. Dimensions: W 23.75" x D ...

Ultrafragola mirror (from Mobile Grigi series of designs.) Ettore Sottsass (Italian.) Original design: 1970, production 2019 Opaline plastic, mirror, pink LED...

New color version “white” designed in 2019 Measures: W. 45, H. 30 cm A new refreshed & updated version of the classic blue super lamp with rubber wheels...

A new, refreshed and updated version of the Classic blue super lamp with rubber wheels by early Memphis inceptor/memer Martine Bedin (France). Same scale and details but in this instance, an all-white body with multicolored exposed bulb...