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French architect and designer

Martine Bedin is a French architect and designer.

She was a member of the Memphis Group.^[2]

Biography

Bedin was born in 1957 in the port of Bordeaux where she knew Nathalie Du Pasquier who would be a fellow designer.^[2] She learnt about architecture in Paris.

She was awarded a scholarship in 1978 and as a result she went to live in Florence. She discovered modern architecture there with Adolfo Natalini and the Superstudio group.^[3]

In 1979, Natalini invited her to Milan, when she met the designer Michele De Lucchi and the architect Ettore Sottsass.^[4] Also in 1979, her Casa Decorata was displayed at the Milan Triennial XVI.

She worked with Sottsass who was based in Milan.^[5]

In December 1980, Bedin was a co-founder of the Memphis-Milano Group^[6]