Our Mondo Contemporaneo is a very unhappy, unsatisfying, unrewarding, dark, place. Should we perhaps all consider a move to the colourful, dynamic reverie of Mondo Mendini? At the Groninger Museum you can undertake a trial visit............... Alessandro Mendini, Marcel Proust, & Poltrona di Proust by Alessandro Mendini, as seen at Mondo Mendini, The Groninger Museum, Groningen Born in Milan on August 16th 1931 Alessandro Mendini studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano,
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While it is important, and relevant, that the centenary of the opening of Bauhaus Weimar is used to delve a little deeper into the (hi)story of both the institution and inter-War Modernism, design and architecture is more than Bauhaus. Thus following on from our October Bauhaus/inter-War Modernism focussed new exhibition recommendations, five more general, if anything but humdrum, architecture and design exhibitions opening in October 2019 in Groningen, Frankfurt, New York, Stockholm and Weil
read moreCelebrated as the salvation of design. Denounced as kitsch. Fresh & invigorating. Vain & hifalutin. A watershed in design history. A passing fad. There are few architecture and design movements that divided opinion quite as much as the works of the Italian group Memphis. Or indeed which continue to divide opinion more than thirty years after their emergence. Although officially launched with an exhibition at the Arc '74 gallery in Milan on Friday September 18th 1981 Memphis can trace its
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