Alessandro Mendini - Design: Online Auction New York Wednesday, February 9, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Grace Designs, Dallas
    Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1986

  • Literature

    Rosa Maria Rinaldi, "Memphis e Alchimia," Domus, no. 646, January 1984, p. 55
    Albrecht Bangert, Italian Furniture Design: Ideas Styles Movements, Munich, 1988, pp. 63, 65, 116
    Peter Weiss, Alessandro Mendini: Objetos, proyectos, construcciones, Milan, 2001, pp. 100-01, 119
    Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt, eds., Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011, p. 41

Property of a Private Miami Collector

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"Poltrona di Proust" armchair

designed 1978, produced circa 1986
Painted wood, painted fabric upholstery.
41 3/4 x 42 x 37 in. (106 x 106.7 x 94 cm)
Hand-painted by Franco Migliaccio. Reverse of apron inscribed mendini.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $20,160

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