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A paean to the work and followers of the Italian design firm Memphis, founded by Ettore Sottsass, a firm which is to furniture what post-modernism is to architecture. The unexpected juxtapositions of materials and colors, tawdry and rich, functional and impractical, mark the work of Memphis. Horn's book is essentially a catalog of the group's designs in many media (with excellent color plates), surrounded by a superficial, unelightening text. However, it does provide a handy overview of the firm, which heretofore has been covered only in scattered interior design magazines. For comprehensive collections. Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Libs. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.