Alessandro Mendini, the Italian designer, theorist and editor who passed away this week, speaks to Dezeen about how design magazines have lost their critical edge in this interview recorded in 2015.

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 ...

Triennale Milano partnered with the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain to host the exhibition, which explores Mendini's work across the fields of architecture, art, design and theory. Titled Io ...

An aptitude for sensing the different temperatures of the world that Mendini also displayed in another role he found congenial, that of artistic director, steering some special manufacturing companies ...

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 ...

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.” There was, for instance, ...

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 ...

From January 14 to 28, 2026, Christie's will host kreo: Icons of 21st century design – an exhibition bringing together major works produced by the renowned Galerie Kreo over the last three decades.

“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, ...

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