Welcome to the The Soof and Flo Show, a podcast which unpacks a new theme each season with 2020 vision, complete with trivia, intersectional critique and candid discussions. This season, we’re "designing in-house": we’re exploring the design industry, movements and ways of working. From episodes on Memphis to our own design processes join Soof and Flo as they design in isolation during an age of lock-down.
This week we’re looking at the design studio Memphis Group, which inspired the 80s pop pattern aesthetic with its avant-garde furniture, fabric, ceramics and metal design. We cover the inception and end of the studio, its members, and its legacy, and ask what design lessons and inspiration we can learn from the Memphis Group during COVID lock-down. 
We cover its origins in Italian radical architecture of the 60s, the drunken sketch-book evenings that saw its creation, its chaotic visual style and joyful ethos, and look at our favourite designs and designers in the movement. We ask, where are the designers of colour in the Memphis movement? Where is the line between influence and appropriation? And why were such impractical things so expensive?
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