Martine Bedin

Martine Bedin is an uncommon designer. Born in Bordeaux, graduate from the Ecole d'architecture in Paris, she spent time, at the end of the 1970s, with Adolfo Natalini and Ettore Sottsass from the radical architecture movement in Italy. In 1981, she teamed up with them to found Memphis in Milan - an influential movement of avant-garde ideas that would completely alter the domain of furniture design through its playful and colorful objects. Martine Bedin, now recognized on an international level, lives in Rome and pursues her exploration into forms and materials: from tropical hardwood to finely chiseled porcelain; from the Super lamp to the Grain de cafe handbag; from the Louis Bobine chest of drawers to the architecture of La maison rouge near Bordeaux. And thus continues this exceptional designer architect's questioning of space: "Our job is to think about things that do not exist." Book jacket.