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MEMPHIS-style GRACIEUX ACCUEIL Lidded Box (1983) / Nathalie Du Pasquier (France)
$3,000
£2,291.70
€2,633.16
CA$4,289.36
A$4,725.87
CHF 2,446.40
MX$56,900.70
NOK 30,977.30
SEK 29,101.21
DKK 19,659.89
About the Item
Around the time that MEMPHIS had become a world-wide phenomenon, several Italian manufacturers approached the various MEMPHIS designers to execute similar work but on different products than MEMPHIS offered. Thus, "Objects for the Electronic Age" ensued by Nathalie Du Pasquier & her husband George Sowden.
GRACIEUX ACCUEIL Lidded Box (1983) Nathalie Du Pasquier (France) “Objects for the Electronic Age
Sold with original box. Signed with decal studio label to lid: [Objects for the Electonic Age Milano 1983 Nathalie Du Pasquier Made in Italy].
Literature: Objects for the Electronic Age, Arc 74 manufacturer's catalog, unpaginated
As one of the founding members of Memphis, Nathalie Du Pasquier has created some of the most recognizable motifs of postmodern design. Born in Bordeaux, France in 1957, Du Pasquier quotes her mother, an art historian and her father, a virologist, as early inspirations in her appreciation towards art and the natural world. With a curiosity to see the world piqued by living in an active port town, at eighteen-years-old she set out for Gabon and West Africa, spending two years traveling and absorbing the cultures that would later inspire her design sensibilities and interest in bright, bold surface pattern.
In 1979 she moved to Milan to work as an au pair. She was drawn to the city for its modern attitude and because it wasn’t “overwhelmed by the beauty of the past.” There, she met her partner George Sowden, a British designer who encouraged her to become interested in modern design. Despite having no formal education, she began working for the fashion brands Fiorucci and Naj Oleari creating textile patterns. In 1981, Ettore Sottsass invited her and Sowden to join the newly formed Memphis group. Du Pasquier says that she was especially drawn to Sottsass’s anarchic, anti-academic style and non-hierarchical approach to taste. Her main contributions to the iconic design style were textiles and furniture, though she also created clothing, plastic laminates, ceramics and objects. Typical of Du Pasquier’s elevated but playful style is her investigation between space and form and exploration of the realm of the imagination.
In 1987, Du Pasquier left the Memphis group and devoted herself to painting and reconnecting with the classics of art history; in recent years she was returned to designing items such as clothing, jewelry and carpets. She did a well-received collaboration with American Apparel in 2014 and in 2015 she had a solo exhibition at Exile in Berlin and a retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania in 2017, Big Objects Not Always Silent. She continues to live and work in Milan.
- Creator:Nathalie du Pasquier (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 8 in (20.32 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)Depth: 8 in (20.32 cm)
- Style:Post-Modern (In the Style Of)
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- Period:1980-1989
- Date of Manufacture:1983
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Tinton Falls, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU10626246973192
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