Memphis Milano

Royal Daybed by Nathalie Du Pasquier

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10-16 Weeks

The design of Royal by Nathalie Du Pasquier makes a clean break with the traditional notion of the sofa, offering an eccentric avant-garde vision of décor, provocative and outside the box. Du Pasquier assembles a collage of different Memphis fabrics, covering a sort of chaise longue with inflated proportions. Her visionary approach leads to the creation of overlapping “coloured quilts,” headed towards a shipwreck of the senses.

Wooden chaise longue covered with decorative laminate, upholstered in printed cotton. Fabric designed by George J. Sowden.

Designed in 1983.

86.6" x 29.5" x 37.4"

Wood, laminate, cotton

Italy

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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