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Catalog to the traveling exhibition originating in Groningen. Includes interviews with Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007), who founded The Memphis Group in 1980, and Artemide Group (lighting design) founder Ernesto Gismondi (1931-2020). Geometric Forms in Color; Asymmetrical Compositions; Stylistic Renewals; Fake or Real; Decorations; Glass; Ceramics; The Product as Design; See 5-Decoration; An Aspirin against Headaches; Imagination leads to The Association of Memphis; Memphis and Design.