Artist Monograph

Alessandro Mendini, Italian

Italian, born 1931

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	2	33.3%
Drawing	1	16.7%
Oil Painting	1	16.7%
Sculpture	1	16.7%
Other Media	1	16.7%

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	1	16.7%
Medium (30–100 cm)	4	66.7%
Large (1–3 m)	1	16.7%

Range: 8.4 cm → 109.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1975	1
2000	2
2001	1
2016	2

Italian Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 6 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Housing, project (Elevation) Architecture Acc. 1218.2000	1971	Printed polymer sheet with tape on lithograph	19 7/8 x 22 1/4" (50.5 x 56.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Housing, project (Elevation) Architecture Acc. 1219.2000	1971	Printed polymer sheet with tape on lithograph	20 x 22 1/2" (50.8 x 57.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Project for a Piece of Furniture Architecture Acc. 241.1975.1-3	1974	Color pencil on board	20 x 14 1/4" (50.8 x 36.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Zaidee Dufallo Fund and Greta Daniel Fund
Terra Chair Design Acc. 964.2016	1974	Plexiglass and soil	31 7/8 × 14 3/16 × 14 15/16" (81 × 36 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Poltrona di Proust armchair Design Acc. 965.2016	1978	Painted wood and upholstery	43 × 41 × 34" (109.2 × 104.1 × 86.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Cioccolator Pad Calculator Design Acc. 1420.2001	1998	Silicon rubber and ABS plastic	1/2 x 3 5/16 x 2 3/4" (1.3 x 8.4 x 7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of the manufacturer