In the year that sees the celebration of 40 years of the brand, The Memphis-Milano catalogue is now enhanced with new items which then all went out of production for various reasons, and which are now proposed once more today as part of a process of revision and updating of the historical collections.

 Negresco, by Martine Bedin, is a multifaceted object, at the same time a work of art, a wall lamp and a decorative panel, in full-coloured laminates featuring daring couplings: pink, yellow, bright green and black. Martine says it resembles desserts with pistachio and strawberry.

The Negresco prototype is part of the permanent collection of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The name of this lamp was taken from the Hôtel Negresco in Nice, founded in 1913 by Henri Négresco and still located on the Promenade des Anglais.

Martine Bedin is an industrial designer, artist, architect and teacher. She studied Architecture at the École d’architecture in Paris. In 1978 she received a scholarship that took her to Florence, where she met the members of the Radical Architecture movement: the founders of Alchimia, Superstudio and Archizoom Associati. The founder of Superstudio, Adolfo Natalini, invited her to exhibit “The Decorated House” at the Milan Triennale in 1979, where she met Michele De Lucchi and Ettore Sottsass. At the beginning of the ’80s she spent two years in Sottsass’s studio, working on her own projects and writing for a French design and architecture magazine. In 1981 she was among the co-founders of the Memphis Group. Bedin works with various materials, such as marble, wood, metal, and ceramics. Her work is exhibited in major museums and private collections, such as the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvre.

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