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Alessandro Mendini Postmodern Zabro Armchair / Table for Zanotta, 1984
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The Zabro table/chair was designed by Alessandro Mendini and produced by the Italian manufacturer Zanotta in 1984.
The top and seat are made of lacquered wood with hand-decorated polychrome decoration. Armrests upholstered in leather. The chair turns into a table by overturning the top.
Excellent vintage condition.
Alessandro Mendini (16 August 1931 – 18 February 2019) was an Italian designer and architect. He played an essential part in the development of Italian, Postmodern, and Radical design. Aside from his artistic career, he also worked for Casabella, Modo, and Domus magazines.
His design's character is marked by his strong interest in mixing different cultures and forms of expression; he created graphics, furniture, interiors, paintings, and architecture and wrote several articles and books. He was renowned as an enthusiastic jury member in architectural competitions for young designers. He taught at the University of Milan.
Mendini was born in Milan. He graduated from Politecnico di Milano in 1959 with a degree in architecture and worked as a designer with Marcello Nizzoli. He was the editor-in-chief of Domus magazine from 1979 to 1985 and changed the landscape of modern design through his outstanding works of postmodernism, such as the Proust Armchair and the Groninger Museum. Just as works of the Renaissance period expressed human values and sensibilities, Mendini contributed to bringing into the heart of design those "values" and "sensibilities" that have been eclipsed by commercialism and functionalism. He collaborated with Cartier, Gufram, Hermès, Vacheron Constantin, Swarovski, Venini, and Supreme.
From 1989 up until he died in Milan in 2019, he ran his practice in Milan, the Atelier Mendini, together with his younger brother Francesco Mendini.
- Creator:Alessandro Mendini (Designer),Zanotta (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 54.34 in (138 cm)Width: 36.62 in (93 cm)Depth: 19.69 in (50 cm)Seat Height: 18.51 in (47 cm)
- Style:Post-Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:Beech,Lacquered
- Place of Origin:
- Period:1980-1989
- Date of Manufacture:1984
- Condition:Minor fading.
- Seller Location:Vicenza, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU8019235045802
Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini was born in Milan in 1931. Through his work as an architect, designer, journalist, theorist and publisher, Mendini helped establish the Italian design sensibility on a global scale with a particular focus on neo-modern, avant-garde design as well as the crossover between art, design and architecture.
Mendini’s influential work spanned the arenas of graphics, furniture, interiors, architecture, stage design, writing and painting. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1959, and he began his career at the studio of artist-designer Marcello Nizzoli. He went on to become the publisher of the popular magazines Casabella (1970–76), Modo and Domus (each 1979–85).
In 1979, Mendini joined Ettore Sottsass and Michele de Lucchi as a partner at Studio Alchimia, a harbinger of the Memphis Group before he cofounded Domus Academy in 1982. In 1989, he and his brother Francesco established their architectural practice, Atelier Mendini, in Milan, where he worked until his death in February 2019. In recognition of his outstanding body of work, Mendini was awarded the Compasso d’Oro twice, in 1979 and 1981. He was also honored by the Architectural League of New York, made Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in France, and, in 2014, he was awarded the European Prize for Architecture.
Mendini’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.
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