Memphis Milano

California Rug by Nathalie Du Pasquier

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10-16 Weeks

California, the rug created by Nathalie Du Pasquier in 1983, reflects the designer’s creativity: it is a festival of different visual stimuli gathered over the years, presented here in a work that combines past and present, crafts and industry.
A pattern of black patches against light blue becomes the backdrop for red triangles and white squares with black dots, matched with central strips of yellow and red. Placed along the yellow, green, red and black frame, these forms play with the geometry of the rectangular border in a situation of only apparent chaos.
Actually everything has been studied down to the smallest details, giving rise to a unique composition with the typical characteristics of Memphis.

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


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.

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