As part of the sale of Wednesday, October 30, 2019 devoted to Italian design, PIASA auction house offers for sale five pieces signed by Italian designer Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019).
The trajectory of this Milanese began on the benches of the Polytechnic School of Milan where he deepened his knowledge of architecture until 1959. Leading figure of the movement "Radical design", Alessandro Mendini collaborates, since the mid-1970s, with Studio Alchimia and meet many Italian designers including Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi or Michele De Lucchi.
In parallel with his creative work, he directs several architectural journals including Modo and Domus from 1979 to 1985. Awarded twice by the Prix Compasso d'Oro (in 1979 and then in 1981), Mendini's work is part of a process that is both decorative and critical.
The massive use of colour to revive everyday objects is one of the symptoms of his rupture with international modernism.
Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019)
Vinca Mayor - Collection Museum Market
Table de salle à manger
Bois peint et fibre de verre laquée
Edition Design Gallery Milano
Edition limitée à 12 exemplaires
Date de création: 1992
H76×L199,5×P106 cm
Estimation: 12 000 / 18 000 euros
This is for example the table edited in 1992 to only twelve copies and sold with an estimate of between 12 000 and 18 000 euros The taste for chromatic effects is found in Enigma, a bar cabinet with sliding doors, edited in a single example in 2009.
Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019)
Plhox
Sculpture
Marbre et fonte de bronze poli
Edition Design Gallery Milano
Edition limitée à 24 exemplaires
Porte l’étiquette de l’éditeur ‘Design Gallery Milano A. Mendini 10/24 1993’
Date de création: 1993
H43,5×L46×P15,5cm
Estimation: 4 000 / 6 000 euros
On both sides, the geometric shapes respond to each other. Illustrating the scope of a creation that knew how to play disciplines, sculpture "Plhox" marble and polished bronze cast is offered for sale with an estimate of between 4,000 and 6,000 euros.
For several years, the pieces of Alessandro Mendini arouse great interest among collectors both French and international as evidenced by the chair Proust, made in 2007, which reaches, at the anniversary sale 5 to 118, nearly 30,000 euros.
