Alessandro Mendini

Alessandro Mendini is an Italian designer and architect. He worked hard in his career and helped a lot in the design industry. He created graphics, furniture, interiors, paintings and architecture. Today he teaches in the University of Milan.




One of his designs is the Proust Armchair it was made in 1978. He wanted to have two different elements on one chair. He made an armchair in the style of a Baroque but with a lot of pointillist of colours. He wanted something colourful and he combined some colours and just put them onto the armchair. In my opinion it is a very beautiful chair, fun and unique. It also relate the colours of a rainbow. As one can see Mendini used mostly primary colours and in between there might be some secondary colours. If I would make a chair like this I would blend it in the order of the colour wheel.

 Proust Armchair

Mendini came up with a redesign of a sofa, where he took it apart and build it up again. He included a mirror and a wall hanging. Mendini has done some products that have the most important twentieth century styles for example, in this sofa we can depict the Cubism and Abstractionism. In my opinion is that to redesign something that was already designed is not an easy task but for me to redesign in this way is not very eye catching and functional for me. I would rather leave it as it was.

Kandissi sofa

Referencing: Graziella Leyla Ciaga, 2011. Minimum Design, Alessandro Mendini