And while we also can’t get enough of Sottsass, one mustn’t forget for a moment the massive imprint Mendini and Alchimia left on our collective design unconscious. But Sottsass seems to have become the go-to reference point for this movement. And so they parted ways.īoth Sottsass and Mendini were fighting against the same soullessness they saw in modernist-era design. Greco-cattolica 1 Giovanni VIII Paleologo ( in greco moderno:, traslitterato: Ianns VIII Palaiologos Costantinopoli, 18 dicembre 1392 Costantinopoli, 31 ottobre 1448) è stato un imperatore bizantino. Alchimia existentei De (autor): Alexandru Paleologu 0 (0 review-uri) Alchimia existentei este cartea unui mare moralist al sfirsitului de secol XX, scrisa intr-o epoca dramatica si dementa, in care curajul opiniei si al reprosului indreptatit era pedepsit. Of course, soon-to-be Memphis star Ettore Sottsass also participated in Alchimia, but these two visionary and outspoken architect-designers began to butt heads over whether they should put their postmodern ideas into production on an industrial scale. Mendini not only joined the collective’s efforts, but also became its most active and articulate voice. anti-Bauhaus design) atmosphere that took hold in Milan beginning in the late ’60s. Studio Alchimia was founded in Milan in 1976-prior to the birth of Memphis-amid the “anti-design” (i.e. But we’d like to take a moment to reminisce over Alessandro Mendini’s immense contribution to this iconic era-and his influential role in the design studio that spawned the Memphis phenomenon. The name Memphis has become a catch-all for radical 1980s design.
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