Playful is the word most often used to describe the work of Alessandro Mendini, the Italian designer, architect and editor, who has died aged 87. It is the quality you see in the apparently childlike ...

Italian architect, designer, and two-time editor-in-chief of Domus Alessandro Mendini has passed away at the age of 87. Mendini was born in Milan in 1931 and was a key figure in the resurgence of ...

Exuberant design was Mendini’s specialty. Mendini died last week, age 87, and his death leaves a void in the school of thought that favored emotion and surprise over the cold efficiency that has come ...

Design magazines today have lost their critical edge and are little more than catalogues, according to Italian designer, theorist and editor Alessandro Mendini. This is because there are no longer any ...

Dezeen Showroom: developed by Italian furniture brand Porro, Linea is a collection of colourful storage units based on rediscovered designs by the late postmodernist Alessandro Mendini. Characterised ...

Alessandro Mendini, an all-around creative figure capable of questioning design derived from functionalist aims and of proposing a world of visionary objects, imbued with emotional and spiritual ...

Alessandro Mendini has a confession to make: “I never created furniture for a house of my own.” The 86-year-old Italian architect has long separated work and home, filling his humble Milan ...

The exuberant and influential Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini has died aged 87. The definition of a renaissance man, he not only produced architecture, graphics, furniture, interiors ...

Ahead of the opening of the exhibition Cartier, Jeweler of the Arts in Paris, Relaxnews caught up with three of the artists behind the innovative artworks for a quick chat about swapping their usual ...

The Estorick Collection opens 2026 with the UK’s first solo exhibition dedicated to Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019), one of post-war Italy’s most creative and influential designers and architects. From ...

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