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Palm Collection

Design

Design:: Piero Angelo Orecchioni
Jonathan Rosenfeld
Client:: Marioni Srl.

“… By dint of walking in the zones of the uncertain (out of a certain diffidence) and by dint of conversing with metaphor and utopia (to understand a few more things) and by dint of getting out of the way (certainly out of innate calm), we now find ourselves with a certain experience, we have become good explorers. Perhaps we know how to navigate vast dangerous rivers, to penetrate into jungles that no one has ever traveled.”
– Ettore Sottsass

Memphis in the 1980s was born with an idea of internationality and contamination, in the name it evoked Egypt but also the Blues, with the idea that it was necessary then as now to surprise and now even more than then the future needs memory.

The Palm collection combines reminiscences related to the 1980s with American Deco seaside architecture. Strongly iconic objects characterized by modular cone-shaped ceramic elements resembling the stem of a palm tree, glossy lacquered wood tops, glass tops and brass details. Modular bookcases, consoles and smoking tables were then joined by a series of small tables at various heights with stained glass tops and lamps both lines consisting only of ceramic modules and a white opaline glass sphere, creating a family of modular objects that can be customized in colors and heights.