Through their jewelry and accessories brand ACME Studio, Lesley Bailey and Adrian Olabuenaga collaborated with Ettore Sottsass, as well as many of the other principals of the Memphis movement, starting in the 1980s. When they purchased this property by the sea in Maui, they reached out to Sottsass to see if he would consider designing a home on it.

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Thank Sottsass for the Most Memphis House Imaginable

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Sottsass first visited Maui in 1989, de-boarding the plane with an architectural model in tow. It was the firstof many iterations the home underwent over the next few years, before construction began in 1995.