Michele De Lucchi

Italian industrial designer and architect known for the Memphis Group's radical design movement in the 1980s — designing the First Chair and other iconic Memphis pieces — and later for institutional design work for Deutsche Bank, Enel, and major Italian companies.

Contributed to the Memphis Group's deliberate rejection of functionalist design orthodoxy — using bold colors, asymmetry, and pattern to argue that design should communicate meaning and emotion rather than just serve function — a challenge to the Braun/Dieter Rams aesthetic that became influential in post-modernist design.