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In 1981, Ettore Sottsass and eleven collaborators founded the Memphis Group in Milan. Their mandate was simple and incendiary: reject functionalism, reject restraint, embrace the decorative with the same rigor that modernists had applied to stripping it away.

Memphis furniture looked like children's drawings brought to three dimensions — but drawn by children who had read every design journal published since 1920. The contradiction was intentional. Form and function were not enemies, but neither were they obligated to a peaceful coexistence.

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Design is not about problems to be solved. It is about life to be lived.

— Ettore Sottsass

This portal channels that energy into the auction world. Every object passing through chika.bid carries the weight of intention — the maker's decision to make it this way and not another. The geometry of the object. The palette of its surface. The typography of its provenance label.