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Designer
Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini was born in Milan on 16 August 1931 and graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1959. He worked with Marcello Nizzoli, edited Domus magazine from 1979 to 1985 and, from 1989 until his death in Milan…
Biography
Background
Alessandro Mendini was born in Milan on 16 August 1931 and graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1959. He worked with Marcello Nizzoli, edited Domus magazine from 1979 to 1985 and, from 1989 until his death in Milan on 18 February 2019, ran Atelier Mendini with his brother Francesco.
Signature Style
Mendini was a leading voice of Italian Radical and postmodern design. He mixed cultures and forms of expression, working across graphics, furniture, interiors, painting and architecture, and he also wrote and taught.
Notable Works
His best-known pieces are the Proust armchair, from his Re-Design period, and the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands; the Amuleto lamp was chosen as one of 100 objects representing Italian design in 2019. For Kartell he designed the Roy stool, a Chinese-style stool carrying a pattern in homage to Roy Lichtenstein, dated 2016 on Kartell's data sheet.
Legacy
He received the Compasso d'Oro in 1979, 1981 and 2014 and was named A&W Designer of the Year in 2017. In 2022 he was inducted into the Milan Hall of Fame.
Products
Roy
Mendini's Roy stool for Kartell: a Chinese-style stool in mass-dyed technopolymer, 45 x 43 cm.
Macaone
Alessandro Mendini's signed table in MDF, rigid polyurethane, steel and aluminium.
Mikiolone
A numbered Mendini bar cabinet with lacquered wood and 20 mm glass tops.
Agrilo
Alessandro Mendini's signed 1984 console with hand-decorated edge and glass top.
Zabro
Alessandro Mendini's signed chair that converts into a table
Cetonia
A signed Mendini chest with hand-painted decoration and anodised aluminium handles.
Calamobio
A numbered chest of drawers with polychrome inlay and red anodised handles.
Hispo
A signed flower-table with a cast base, steel leg and mosaic-set wooden top.
Sirfo
Alessandro Mendini's signed goose-table in cast aluminium and glass
