Design Gallery Milano’s Icons and Material Medley
A Temple to Radical Design
Since the 1980s, Design Gallery Milano has been on a mission: to support the design vanguard. Working with designers intent upon disrupting the commerce-driven underpinnings of industrial design—the architects of postmodernism and masters of material experimentation, like Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi, and Michele De Lucchi—it was one of the first galleries in the world to treat design production as a fine art and to develop limited edition design collections.
Design Gallery Milano is still going strong. The gallery’s presentation Icons during last week’s Salone was like a greatest-hits tribute to their three-decades-long quest for new design frontiers. And the dialogue between these now-classic pieces and the new work by Madrid-born, London-based studio El Ultimo Grito—entitled Material Medley—proves that design provocation and subversion are alive and well in the post-post-postmodern era.
*All photos courtesy of Design Gallery Milano.
Designbegeisterte hier entlang
Papilio Tisch von Alessandro Mendini für Zanotta, 1980er
Cognacfarbener Vintage Leder Esszimmerstuhl von Andrea Branzi für Zanotta
Alex Chaise Longue von Alessandro Mendini fürecopixel
Vintage Sessel von Gaetano Pesce
Blaue Alex Chaise Longue von Alessandro Mendini für ecopixel
Vintage Vase aus Harz von Gaetano Pesce
Olly Tango Stühle von Philippe Starck für Driade, 1990er, 8er Set
Mid-Century Skulptur von Gaetano Pesce für Cassina, 1960er
Victoria und Albert Stuhl von Ron Arad für Moroso, 2000er
Kupfer Hängelampe Deriva von Alessandro Mendini
Vintage Stuhl von Michele de Lucchi für Memphis Milano
Neolia Wandschirm von Andrea Branzi für Zanotta Edizione, 1989
Lila Deriva Pearl Hängelampe von Alessandro Mendini
Deriva Proust Hängelampe von Alessandro Mendini
Orange Deriva Fluorescent Hängelampe von Alessandro Mendini
First Chair von Michele De Lucchi für Memphis Milano, 1990er, 2er Set
Deriva Decoration 1 Hängelampe von Alessandro Mendini
Schirmstuhl von Gaetano Pesce für Zerodisegno, 1995
Deriva Decoration 3 Hängeleuchte von Alessandro Mendini
Deriva Decoration 2 Hängelampe von Alessandro Mendini