{"id":18770,"date":"2019-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designdiffusion.com\/2019\/02\/19\/farewell-to-the-master-of-italian-design-alessandro-mendini\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:00:00","slug":"farewell-to-the-master-of-italian-design-alessandro-mendini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designdiffusion.com\/en\/2019\/02\/19\/farewell-to-the-master-of-italian-design-alessandro-mendini\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the Master of Italian Design: Alessandro Mendini"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Alessandro Mendini, an architect, designer and revolutionary creative mind. Our farewell to a design innovator<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A keen observer of social evolution, <strong>Alessandro Mendini mixed history and psychology <\/strong>of each decade, observing the rapid changes that were taking place. He wanted to <strong>\u201cgive a soul\u201d to the objects he designed<\/strong>, giving them anthropomorphic shapes that would bring them in the tragicomedy of life.He always lived in <strong>Milan<\/strong>, where he was born on 16<sup>th<\/sup> August 1931. <strong>As a child, his dream was to become a cartoonist<\/strong>, but, driven by his family, he approached engineering studies. While he was studying architecture at Politecnico di Milano, he discovered a <strong>passion for literature and started writing for various magazines<\/strong>.At home of the Boschi-Di Stefano family, from whom he inherited the beautiful house-museum designed by Piero Portaluppi in the Thirties, Mendini got to know the paintings of Morandi, Savinio, Tosi, Funi, Sironi, Carr\u00e0. <strong>As a young architect, he realized that he preferred canvas, cartoons, theoretic work to architectural design<\/strong>. He used to say that his teachers where futurism, De Chirico, Kandinsky, Czech Cubism.Alessandro Mendini will be remembered also for the countless objects he designed during his long career: the <strong>Proust armchair for<\/strong> <strong>Alchimia<\/strong>\u00a0(1978), the <strong>bottle screw<\/strong> from the Anna G collection \u2013 one of the many small kitchen tools <strong>designed for Alessi<\/strong> \u2013 are very famous. He worked with the most prestigious companies, including <strong>Zanotta, Swatch, Philips, Veni<\/strong><strong>ni, Bisazza, Cartier.<\/strong>In the Seventies he founded Alchimia, later he joined the Memphis Group and founded the <strong>Global Tools<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>school<\/strong> aimed at stimulating spontaneous creativity in the creation of a design object. In 1989, along with his brother Francesco, he created the <strong>Atelier Mendini<\/strong>.He designed many architectures worldwide and was tasked with urban renovations in Lugano, Rome, Naples, Incheon (South Korea, where he designed a new headquarters of Triennale di Milano). He received many awards, such as the <strong>Compasso d\u2019Oro<\/strong>\u00a0in 1979 and1981, the <strong>European Prize for Architecture <\/strong>in 2014, and he was appointed <strong>Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres<\/strong> in France.Alessandro Mendini passed away on 18<sup>th<\/sup> February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>[text Giulia Bruno]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alessandro Mendini, an architect, designer and revolutionary creative mind. Our farewell to a design innovator A keen observer of social evolution, Alessandro Mendini mixed history and psychology of each decade, observing the rapid changes that were taking place. 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