Memphis Milano

Arizona Rug by Nathalie Du Pasquier

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10-16 Weeks

Looking at Arizona by Nathalie Du Pasquier feels like standing in front of an abstract painting, where the sculptural forms of Memphis design seem to be flattened onto a two-dimensional surface.
The quality of the craftsmanship, together with the bright colours and extravagant forms, are the distinctive features of Arizona. This rug is made by hand in pure wool by artisans in Nepal.

100% Tibetan wool rug, hand-knotted on traditional loom. As the carpet is made by hand dimensions and colours may vary from the image.

Designed in 1983.

98.4" x 70.9"

100% Tibetan wool

Nathalie Du Pasquier, French artist and designer, was born in Bordeaux in 1957. She has lived and worked in Milan since 1979. In 1981, Du Pasquier, who is self-taught in design, was among the protagonists of Memphis. Her many designs for decorated surfaces such as fabrics, carpets, furniture and plastic laminates have played a fundamental role in creating the unmistakable Memphis style. Despite her success as a designer, from 1987, when Memphis broke up, painting became her main activity.

Du Pasquier's continuous research is expressed in paintings, sculptures, drawings, models, constructions, carpets, books and ceramics, which constantly investigate the boundary between the representative and the non-representative, the tangible and the intangible, reality and imagination and two- and three-dimensional forms. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and institutions around the world such as PACE Gallery and the Camden Arts Centre in London, the Kunsthalle Lissabon, and the Vienna Kunsthalle.

Her first major solo exhibition in an Italian institution, entitled Campo di Marte, was held in 2022 at the Museo di Arte Contemporanea in Rome.

Condition: New