Alessandro Mendini’s design alphabet

The personal alphabet of Alessandro Mendini has now been made into a small exhibition at the Galleria Daniele in Padua. Fans of the Milanese architect, designer, painting and theorist will recall the “Mendinigrafo”, a kind of stencil invented in 1985, a small system for creating an infinite number of forms, images and designs.

“I have often thought of my design as a system of signs, sometimes simple, sometimes complex, interwoven with one another and developed ad infinitum in my objects, houses, furniture and surfaces”, explains Alessandro Mendini. “Visual alphabets, signs, colours, images, decorative elements, always similar but always different, in a continual endless movement, large and small, in two and three dimensions”.

This personal alphabet has now been made into a small exhibition at the Galleria Daniele in Padua. Fans of the Milanese architect, designer, painting and theorist will recall the “Mendinigrafo”, a kind of stencil invented in 1985, a small system for creating an infinite number of forms, images and designs. Or the “Oro e Nero” (Gold and Black), a highly identifying system that if very small, is translated into the grid of a mosaic or a tapestry pattern, if large becomes the meeting of two colours. E.S.

Until 17.3.2007
Alessandro Mendini “Stilemi”
Galleria Daniele
Via B. Cristofori 2, Padova
T 049/8721565
http://www.ateliermendini.it

Alessandro Mendini’s design alphabet

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