MARTINE BEDIN

A cross between a hedgehog and small car, the joyous, polychromatic appearance of the ‘Super Lamp’ encapsulates the anti-establishment approach to design of the Memphis Group. Manufactured by Fausto Celatti, the lamp works like a pullalong toy and as such has been described as one of its more comical products. Martine Bedin drew the design for the lamp two years before she joined the group, and it debuted in their first exhibition in 1981. Made from painted steel sheets, it rejects the trends of the time toward functional, industrial products, instead embracing intuitive, playful motifs. Bedin’s designs have remained anti-establishment and anti-industry.

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