Alessandro Mendini

An architect, designer, painter and architecture and design theorist, Alessandro Mendini was born in Milan in 1931. He gained international renown in the Sixties of the 20th century, participating in the emergence of Postmodern Design, banal design (the design that utilizes banal as a linguistic code and “allows citation, incongruence, inauthenticity and incompleteness”) and re-design (“decoration interventions on rediscovered objects or famous design products”).
Mr. Mendini was the leader of many of the most important cultural events of the 20th century, contributing theoretically to ongoing phenomena and creating new schools of thought.