9.30.2012

mondoblogo is stuck in the 80s

Pepe Cortes & Javier Mariscal
"Trampolin" chair
Akaba
1986

I just, I just, I just can't stop....

Paolo Deganello
"Torso" armchair
Cassina
1984

Tony Cragg
"Element Plane" table sculpture
1983

James Evanson
"Hi-Beam" table light
From the "Lighthouse Collection"
Art et Industrie
1985

James Evanson
"Lightstruck" table light
From the "Lighthouse Collection"
Art et Industrie
1985

James Evanson
"Lighthouse Collection"
Art et Industrie
1985

Gaetano Pesce
"Airport" lamp
1986

Daniel Weil
"Andante" Am/Fm radio
Quartett
1984

Joachim Stanitzek
"BG 1" media component holder
Designwerkstatt
1988

Sony Design Team
"F107" Solar Walkman
1986

Alchimia
Bruno Gregori
"Neo-Spatial" kitchen workstation
Alchemia/Salvarani
1986

George Sowden
"Acapulco" clock
Memphis
1981

Nathalie du Pasquier
Pencil case
Fiorucci
1983

George Sowden
"Palace" armchair
Memphis
1983

George Sowden
"D'Antibes"
Memphis
1983

George Sowden and Nathalie du Pasquier
"Floating Carpet"
Steeles Carpets
1983

George Sowden and Nathalie du Pasquier
"Floating Carpet"
Steeles Carpets
1983

Ettore Sottsass
"Rete 2" laminate
Memphis
1983

Gerard Taylor's
"Oregon" rug
Memphis
1983

Nathalie du Pasquier
Bloomingdale's shopping bag
Memphis
1985

All images from:
"80s Style: Designs of the Decade"
Albrecht Bangert ands Karl Michael Armer
Abbevile Press
1990
and
"Memphis: Objects, Furniture, and Patterns"
Richard Horn
Running Press
1986

9.25.2012

eric timothy carlson @ mondo cane

 










Please join us for ETC's
opening reception 
Wednesday September 26th,
6-9pm at 
174 Duane Street
N.Y.C.
We hope to see you there/here(!) for some 
cold 
Pacifico
and 
rad 
Art....
If you can't make it to the opening,
the exhibition will run through
October 10th.

More HERE and HERE....

9.24.2012

been trippin'....

Sorry so lame with the posts, 
I'll be back later this week with a vengeance!!!!





9.19.2012

smarten up with andrew wyatt from miike snow!

Sign up now, 
it's filling up fast....
I'll be there with my niece and nephew.
It's gonna be a blast!
More info 
and 

9.17.2012

karl lagerfeld's memphis collection @ sotheby's

I got this amazing 90s
Sotheby's catalog in the mail today.
"The Memphis Collection of 
Karl Lagerfeld"
It's so great! 
Filled with things I had never seen before.
Here are some of my favorite pages....

Karl's pad circa 1990

Michele De Lucci, Martine Bedin.
the lower row all Ettore Sottsass
"Oceanic", "Super" "Treetops"
"Cavalieri" and "Callimaco" Lamps
Memphis
1981-83

Matteo Thun
Teapots with names too long for me to type!
Memphis
1982

Matteo Thun
"Gallus Italicus" Teapots
Alessio Sarri-Sesto Fiorentino
1982

Ettore Sottsass
"Beverly" Cabinet
Memphis
1981

Masanori Umeda
"Tawaraya" Party Ring
Memphis
1981

Gerard Taylor
"Tennessee" Rug
Memphis
1981

Peter Shire
"Anchorage" Teapot
Memphis
1982

Andrea Branzi
"Beach" Lounge Chair
Memphis
1983

Studio Memphis
Televisions
Brionvega
1981

Arata Isozaki
"Fuji" Cabinets
Memphis
1981

Martine Bedin and Thomas Bley
"Eastern" and "Astor" Lamps
Memphis
1981-82

George James Snowden
"Excelsior", "American" and "Pierre" Clocks
Memphis
1981

Javier Mariscal
Table
Memphis
1981

Martine Bedin, Michele De Lucci, Ettore Sottsass
and Martine Bedin
"Splendid", "Grand", "King's" 
and "Terminus" Lamps
Memphis
1981-83