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 ...

Mendini had worked with Porro in 2014, when he created the ‘Maggio’ chest of drawers and ‘Schermo’ cabinet. The designer had experimented with wood marquetry, creating abstract geometric compositions ...

In this video produced by Dezeen for Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier, Philippe Starck describes the "genius" of Alessandro Mendini following the opening of Io Sono Un Drago: The True Story of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Atelier Mendini was established in 1989 in Milan by two brothers, Alessandro and Francesco Mendini. Together, they work on projects ranging from graphic design and urban design to architecture and ...

“I have, sometimes, problems with my objects,” Alessandro Mendini, the Italian designer, architect and editor, once admitted. “Sometimes my objects are aggressive even to me.” There was, for instance, ...

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 ...

Italian architect, philosopher, architectural theorist, visionary and design practitioner, Alessandro Mendini, has been selected to receive the 2014 European Prize for Architecture. Awarded annually ...

“I have, sometimes, problems with my objects,” Alessandro Mendini, the Italian designer, architect and editor, once admitted. “Sometimes my objects are aggressive even to me.” Aggressive, brash, ...