Barbara Radice
Barbara Radice is an Italian design critic, writer, and editor.Background
She was born in Como, Italy, and graduated from the Catholic University of Milan in 1968. The Italian avant-garde Memphis Group design collective was formed during a gathering at her home in Milan in 1980, and Radice is the only non-architect counted among the group's seven founding members.
She became the group's historian and spokesperson, and published the book Memphis: Research, Experiences, Results, Failures and Successes of New Design, which served as a manifesto for the group's design philosophy and highlighted the work of designers Nathalie du Pasquier, Matteo Thun, and Martine Bedin. Radice wrote many articles exploring the themes and theories of this new aesthetic movement, and was editor of the design and architecture magazine Terrazzo from 1988-1997. She was married to the Memphis designer Ettore Sottsass, who she met in 1976 at the Venice Biennale. She published a critical biography of Sottsass in 1993 and edited a book of his photography in 2003.
