MARTINE BEDIN
(Bordeaux, France, 1957)

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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Martine Bedin
Super , 1981
Collection: Memphis Milano
Table or floor lamp in fiberglass. Six bulbs E14, 40W.
Three new versions yellow, total white colour
Original design by Martine Bedin in 1981
W 45 x H 30 cm -
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Martine Bedin
Super , 1981
Collection: Memphis Milano
Table or floor lamp in fiberglass. Six bulbs E14, 40W.
Three new versions yellow, total white colour
Original design by Martine Bedin in 1981
W 45 x H 30 cm -
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Martine Bedin
Superarri , 1981
Collection: Memphis Milano
Table or floor lamp in fiberglass. Six bulbs E14, 40W.
Original design by Martine Bedin in 1981
Design by Martine Bedin in 2016
W 42 x H 30 cm
Special edition of 99 -
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Martine Bedin
Super, 1981
Collection: Memphis Milano
Table or floor lamp in fiberglass. Bulb E14, 40W.
W 45 x H 30 cm -
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Martine Bedin
Paris, 1986
Collection: Memphis Milano
Chair in reconstituted veneer and metal.
D 60 x H 67 cm -
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Martine Bedin
Negresco, 1981
Collection: Memphis Milano
Wall lamp in wood and plastic laminate with alternating layers of colour, and with a neon light embedded within the frame.
W 60, D 12, H 60 cm -
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Martine Bedin
Lodge, 1982
Collection: Memphis Milano
Bookcase with four drawers. Structure in wood finished with plastic laminate.
W 168, D 30, H 126 cm