Alessandro Mendini, 'Ondoso' coffee table

1979
Plastic-laminated wood, painted wood, painted steel, rubber.
32 x 132 x 98 cm (12 5/8 x 51 7/8 x 38 5/8 in.)
Produced by Studio Alchimia, Milan, Italy. Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Atelier Mendini.

Provenance

Rago, Lambertville, 'Mid-Mod', 20 May 2017, lot 1640
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Andrea Branzi, The Hot House: Italian New Wave Design, Cambridge, 1984, p. 126
Albrecht Bangert, Italienisches Möbeldesign: Klassiker von 1945 bis 1985, Munich, 1985, pp. 63, 139
Fulvio Irace et. al., Io Sono un Drago: La Vera Storia di Alessandro Mendini, exh. cat., Triennale Milano, Milan, 2024, p. 240