Hints and tips:
...Quirky, unusual and occasionally genuinely surprising, the buildings (notably a gold-plated tower) play with ideas of industrial rawness, luxury and taste....
...For more 20th-century art, I’d visit Museo del Novecento, and I’m also a big fan of Gio Ponti so I’d recommend a trip to the Pirelli Tower....
...Between a Memphis Group floor lamp and a pair of John Dickinson plastic tables, a group of visitors is admiring a very phallic scarlet armchair: an original Up, by Italian designer Gaetano Pesce and made...
...Unfortunately, the Great Pyramid of Cheops, built by rival Tennessee city Memphis, was removed at the end of the exposition....
...Although Miró and Picasso’s offerings did not feature tiles, Chicago is a metropolis bursting with bright, colourful mosaics, most notably Marc Chagall’s Four Seasons at the Chase Tower Plaza....
...From the moment it connected to Spotify (launched in 2008) via Bluetooth, many vinyl record and CD collections — and, thankfully, CD “towers” — were sent to the charity shop....
...Sotheby’s, for example, saw record results of £1.9m at its fundraising sale in aid of the Grenfell Tower fire survivors in October 2017, four months after the London disaster....
...Objections to the transmission towers included warnings from farmers that they would hamper crop-spraying and complaints that they were “unsightly” ....
...What On the 44th, 45th and 46th floors of a modern tower, this four-bedroom triplex has three terraces, a cinema and five underground parking spaces....
...And it is framed by super-modern, decorated filigree and neo-gothic towers, a catalogue of postmodernism....
...There are parallels here between the current dynamism of the design scene and the excitement around the Memphis movement of the 1980s....
...Sottsass founded the Memphis group in the 1980s, a collection of pop-oriented Milanese designers who privileged colour and form, and brought laminate out of the kitchen with their love of bright, flat surfaces...
...Motown’s Memphis rival, Stax Records, provided a cautionary tale. Its back catalogue was swallowed up by its distributor, Atlantic Records, in 1967, amid allegations of legal chicanery....
...At MoMA, across the road from the office tower, was the Andy Warhol retrospective, where moments before, I had seen a multitude of grieving Jackies in silkscreen prints....
...In this case the latter is employed in banners on a four-part cylindrical spice tower. 21cm high; £270 www.cheffins.co.uk ………………………………………………….....
...They gave Chuck Berry’s “Memphis” more desperation than Elvis did and invested Disney’s schmaltzy “When You Wish Upon A Star” with a spooky chill....
...Jurgen Bey’s flower tower is a haphazard composition of buckets ....
...Sedaris was perturbed on a promotional trip to Memphis to find a pile of the Rooster’s “ugly-ass” garments next to his books....
...Twice a year she puts on shows in 18 US cities, from Memphis and Nashville to New York and Dallas....
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