Following the news that David Bowie's secret collection of Memphis furniture is going up for sale next month, Adam Trunoske from auction house Sotheby's shares five of the most iconic pieces from the musician's personal stash.
It's now known that before his death earlier this year, Bowie was an avid yet discreet collector of works by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass and the Milan-based Memphis group.
Over the years, he had managed to acquire more than 100 pieces, including the iconic Super Lamp by Martine Bedin and Sottsass' Carlton bookcase.
Trunoske, a specialist in 20th-century design at London auction house Sotheby's, believed Bowie's connection to the design came from his attraction to things "outside of the norm".
"Memphis design and post-modernist design is something that was very groundbreaking," he told Dezeen. "When the first collection of Memphis pieces came out in 1981 in Milan, it just really brought something completely new to the design world." "I think David Bowie was somebody who really liked and was attracted to things that were outside of the norm," he added.
"He was always kind of changing his style throughout the years and he was never quite the same person, and these pieces really reflected him because they polarised audiences when they came out."
The pieces will be auctioned at Sotheby's on 11 November 2016, with estimates ranging from £60 to £7000.
See Trunoske's picks and descriptions of the most i...