BEVERLY CABINET, 1981

Details

ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)
BEVERLY CABINET, 1981
produced by Memphis, the laminates produced by Abet Laminati, plastic laminates and briar veneer over wood case, chromed tubular steel, light bulb
90 in. (228 cm.) high; 71½ in. (112 cm.) wide; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep
metal tag to plinth Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass designer, anno 1981, No. 04

Literature

R. Horn, Memphis: Objects, Furniture & Patterns, London, 1986, p. 77 (example illustrated)
La Collection de Design du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2001, p. 148 (example illustrated)

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Lot Essay

The Beverly cabinet was exhibited at the first Memphis exhibition, Milan, 1981, and an example is now retained in the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. The present example, which bears the numbered tag '4', would have been only the fourth Beverly to have been retailed, and would have been manufactured in 1981. A distinctively inharmonious collage of disparate shapes and textures, selected to celebrate vulgarity and to bypass function, the Beverly today endures as one of the most significant and fluent examples of early Memphis design.

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