ENORME TELEPHONE THANKS TO IRIS

4" x 2.25" x 7.625"
Electronics, Chats
USA

The telephone comes to us via our friend Iris Alonzo whom we met back in New York, back in 2010, back when she was running American Apparel. She's always up to something...Produced in 1985, the ENORME telephone was the brainchild of Memphis founder Ettore Sottsass, IDEO founder David Kelley, and investor Jean Pigozzi.In 2025, a time capsule containing 500 untouched collectible ENORME sets was discovered and retrieved from Stanford, California. With the support of Kelley, Pigozzi, and surviving Memphis members, it is a defining piece of the postmodern era that timelessly fuses art, technology, and design.Each ENORME landline comes with the original 1985 packaging and instruction booklet designed by Sottsass and Kelley.ENORME is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design.For now it runs on the good old phone lines, so only some of you are actually going to be able to plug in and use things thing but Marco is working on how to outfit it for VOIP use in the near future. OMG.