Aldo
Cibic

Aldo Cibic is a designer deeply rooted in the Memphis aesthetic. Close to the iconic Ettore Sottsass, their styles blend and complement each other under the aegis of Memphis Milano, the renowned Milanese publisher of extravagant and eccentric furniture. The lines are bold, and the style is decidedly disruptive. The objects verge on works of art: furniture becomes a gallery affair.

The Memphis style draws its codes from Neoclassicism, which itself stems from Antiquity. Think columns, triangular pediments, geometric friezes… all elements borrowed from the architectural lexicon, adapted and transposed into Milanese furniture of the 1980s.
Several designers embraced this style and joined the Memphis movement: Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Michele De Lucchi, Aldo Cibic, and Andrea Branzi.

Aldo Cibic’s work is punctuated by patterns mimicking wood or concrete, in bold colors. The shapes are geometric, sometimes deliberately simplistic; the lines are straight and taut.

In the Memphis universe, Aldo Cibic is an essential figure. One to (re)discover asap at Pulp Galerie.