{"title":"Root Catalog \u003e Default Category \u003e Designers \u003e Alessandro Mendini","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in Milan in 1931, Mendini graduated in Architecture from the same city’s Polytechnic in 1959.  Mendini’s long career includes stints as image consultants for such A-rated companies as Phillips, Swatch, Swarovski and Bisazza. He has also designed some of the world’s most interesting buildings including the Des Groninger Museum and the Memorial Tower in Hiroshima. [OPEN]\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s Mendini was a member of the Radical Design Movement, foregoing conventional notions of function and form. With his Lassu Chair, which was mounted on a pyramid, he was famously attempting to address the domestic object as a conduit for spirituality. He still believes that “the world is violent, and the house must be protective.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1978 Mendini’s work with Italian company \u003ca title=\"Magis chairs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.design55online.co.uk\/brands\/magis.html\"\u003eMagis\u003c\/a\u003e reached fruition with the \u003ca title=\"magis proust chair\" href=\"http:\/\/www.design55online.co.uk\/magis-proust-armchair.html\" target=\"_self\"\u003eProust Chair\u003c\/a\u003e for which he won the Compasso d’Ora (Golden Compass) in 1979. Still available for purchase, this witty, timeless and comfortable chair can be seen in the V \u0026amp; A, Paris’s Pompidou and Manhattan’s MoMA.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMendini teaches at the Politecnico Milano.[CLOSE]\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sanix-shopify-dev.myshopify.com\/collections\/alessandro-mendini.oembed","provider":"Sanix Shopify","version":"1.0","type":"link"}