{"id":23357,"date":"2019-02-20T12:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.makte.it\/addio-ad-alessandro-mendini-larchitetto-che-rivoluziono-il-design\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T12:32:59","slug":"addio-ad-alessandro-mendini-larchitetto-che-rivoluziono-il-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.makte.it\/en\/addio-ad-alessandro-mendini-larchitetto-che-rivoluziono-il-design\/","title":{"rendered":"ALESSANDRO MENDINI, AN ARTIST WHO REVOLUTIONIZED THE DESIGN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodbye to Alessandro Mendini: revolutionary master of Made in Italy design<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect, designer and italian artist who tink outside the box, ironic and a smiling person, Alessandro Mendini<\/strong>, one of the greatest artists of our time, died in Milan at the age of 87.<\/p>\n

Elegant, brilliant, visionary and curious to know differt disciplines, he has never stopped considering man<\/strong>, understood as \u201cbody, psyche and spirit\u201d, at the center of the project.<\/p>\n

The objects he created, by his own definition, had to provide for those who used them “thought, and also cheerfulness, spirituality, sympathy”<\/em><\/strong> and transform common actions into moments with a strong and playful content.<\/p>\n

DESIGN PROJECTS..<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A clear example are his famous creations for Alessi, like the Anna G. corkscrew <\/strong>or the Anna Pepper pepper mill<\/strong>, and also his wonderful puntillist armchair, the Proust<\/strong>, which soon became icons of timeless design.<\/p>\n

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Since the end of the ’70s he has been one of the protagonists of a real revolution of the italian design, both as an intellectial and as a member of the Alchimia <\/em><\/strong>group, <\/em><\/strong>a radical design group that has shocked \u00a0functionalist design by aiming at creating objects for pure artistic pleasure, with reference to popular culture and kitsch.<\/span><\/p>\n

From those years he started working for several companies such as Alessi<\/strong>, Venini, Cartier, Swatch, Swarovsky<\/strong>,\u00a0who accepted his experimental and mannerist attitude producing a poetic and emotional design.<\/span><\/p>\n

THE AWARDS AND MAGAZINES..<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He received many prizes for his work has a designer, including the Compasso d’oro<\/strong> twice\u00a0 in 1979 and 1981, and directed many major architectural magazines including\u00a0Domus, Casabella e Modo<\/strong> founded by him.<\/p>\n

ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS..<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He designed and builded several public buildings both in Italy and in various countries of the world , as the Groninger Museum <\/strong>in Netherlands,<\/p>\n

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the “Clock Tower”<\/strong> in Gibellina,<\/p>\n

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and the Salvador Rosa, University and Materdei stations of the Naples subway.<\/p>\n

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He lives a life immersed in art, because it was not confined only to design or architecture , but expanded to graphics, painting, writing, the art of performance and love for color.<\/p>\n

He founded with his brother the Mendini Atelier<\/strong>, thanks to which lots of projects of great commercial success, that have indelibly marked the way of conceiving design and art,\u00a0 came to life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Makte<\/strong> want to remember Mendini<\/strong> in this way; with 2 decorations in our material library designed by him and that make his creative genius eternal:<\/p>\n