Alessandro Mendini

Olivari designers

Milano, 1931-2019

After training in Marcello Nizzoli’s studio, in 1970 Mendini becomes the director of the magazine Casabella and the harbinger of the radical movement’s entreaties. In 1976 he founds the magazine Modo, and from 1979 to 1985 he is the director of Domus. A theoretician and promoter of design renewal in the 1980s, he creates icons of anti design such as the Proustarmchair. (1978). He greatly helps construct the image of companies such as Alessi, Bisazza, and Swatch.

TIME Q

2006

TIME

2004

AURORA

1994

SPACE Q

2006 – Out of production

SPACE

2004 – Out of production

VENERE

2003 – Out of production

TEBE

1992 – Out of production

— Alessandro, Francesco Mendini, scala centrale in mosaico Bisazza, Groninger Museum (NL), 2010
— Alessandro Mendini,
His Atelier Mendini, founded along with his brother Francesco, also works on architecture. It creates the Groningen Museum in Holland (1994) in collaboration with Philippe Starck, Frank Stella, and Coop Himmbelb(l)au.
— Alessandro Mendini, Galassia
— Alessandro Mendini, Anna G, cavaturaccioli, Alessi, 1994
— Atelier Mendini, Casino Arosa (CH), 1996
— Alessandro Mendini, Angelo Guerriero, Venini, 2010